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So cool that something Linus Torvalds made to solve his own problems, spread all around the world so quickly. I guess great dev tools can only be made by great
by mkchoi212 7y ago
So cool that something Linus Torvalds made to solve his own problems, spread all around the world so quickly. I guess great dev tools can only be made by great developers, who have been through a lot of scenarios/problems themselves.
- zwieback 7y agoWhat's interesting to me is that git does not seem like a "great dev tool" when you first start using it, especially if you're already used to another VCS. Right now I'm using SVN, Perforce and git for different projects and I definitely like git the most, but it took a while to get there. And it's not the centralized vs. decentralized per se, like 99.9% of git users I'm almost always within milliseconds of a central server. The big change was to treat my development "as-if" I was doing my own thing, decentralized, when in fact I'm not.
- bmn__ 7y agoDon't neglect to give enough credit to BitKeeper, the DVCS some kernel folks used before and whose design in broad strokes was cloned by Linus.
- koreth1 7y agoOr even further back: BitKeeper was a successor to an earlier DVCS from the early 1990s, Sun Workshop TeamWare. Everything old is new again.