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Plus -- git! I'm a confirmed Linux user [switched from macOS], but to me it's clear that git dwarfs Linux in terms of sheer _significance_. Sure, Linux is wha
by MisterOctober 7y ago
Plus -- git!
I'm a confirmed Linux user [switched from macOS], but to me it's clear that git dwarfs Linux in terms of sheer _significance_.
Sure, Linux is what runs most big systems and that is really cool, but if Linux hadn't come around, there was already BSD [which is also good and a lotta my buddies were advocating in the mid-late 90s]. But git is quite unique and has / had no easy substitute. I don't [personally] know a single technology person who doesn't use or interact with git daily. And the benefits of reliable, free/open, and distributed version control are just monumental for the average working code stiff.
- cesarb 7y ago> But git is quite unique and has / had no easy substitute. There was Monotone, which was git's main inspiration. If it weren't slow as molasses, we might be using it today instead of git.
- BurningCycles 7y agoI'd say the main inspiration was Bitkeeper, which is what Linus used until the free usage was withdrawn by the author.
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y agoMercurial appears to have come out at the same time as git and covers almost exactly the same usecases.
- muxator 7y agoPlus: non specialists have a chance of being able to use it proficiently, without having to know its internals.
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