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> decentralization was a secondary effect of the workflow Linus wanted to achieve. Linus didn't want to achieve a change in workflow of kernel development, he
by chupasaurus 7y ago
> decentralization was a secondary effect of the workflow Linus wanted to achieve.
Linus didn't want to achieve a change in workflow of kernel development, he just made a tool to make which would ease the pain, Linux development was decentralized since forever.
- toyg 7y agoWhat I said is that the design of git was driven by the requirements of async workflow (“easing the pain”, in your words) more than decentralization as a philosophical objective. I think we saying the same thing with different words. I still wonder if Larry McVoy feels sore that git basically destroyed BitKeeper and became what it did. “It could have been me” and all that...