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> Instead of going on merits, everyone just followed Linus. You don't think creating Linux and git are "merits"? Most people I know that adopted git had no clu
by tomnipotent 7y ago
> Instead of going on merits, everyone just followed Linus.
You don't think creating Linux and git are "merits"? Most people I know that adopted git had no clue who Linus was, or that he was even involved in git.
- jw14 7y agoCreating both are merits, of course. But creating Linux should not be a merit toward Git. Obviously the experience would make Git better. But why did a better UI lose to an inferior one? I'd love to be wrong because now Mercurial is sort of dead and I have to use Git every day if I want to work with others. I'd love to have a better attitude about it. So far it just looks like another thing that one because X popular guy made it or Y big company made it.
- tomnipotent 7y ago> But why did a better UI lose to an inferior one? Because it wasn't better? Git won because it's overall a superior VCS, had better support for complex workflows, was performant, and had GitHub which means teams could circumvent IT.
- pjmlp 7y agoGit won because anyone that wanted to contribute to Linux had to use it.
- tomnipotent 7y agoThat's ridiculous. That's a drop in the bucket compared to the number of other developers and projects out there.
- clktmr 7y agoThat's not true at all. All you need ist a diff tool and an email address.