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I mean, he was definitely selling a product there. SVN was pretty good, barring the merge logic being a PITA.
by jldugger 4y ago
I mean, he was definitely selling a product there. SVN was pretty good, barring the merge logic being a PITA.
- Alupis 4y agoI don't know if he was selling a product. Git is a FOSS utility, after all. GitHub and others came much later, and have no affiliation with the Git project or Torvalds (some might not know this). Torvalds created Git for the Linux Kernel folks, and didn't really care if it was used anywhere else. Torvalds only went about creating Git because BitKeeper and the Kernel folks had a very public falling-out (much to BitKeeper's ultimate misfortune - who even knows about BitKeeper these days). He, and the Kernel folks, were very happy with BitKeeper up until then - and a lot of the BitKeeper features that were unique at the time ended up landing in Git. This tech talk was because people outside of the Kernel became interested in a similar workflow - namely distributed and "free" branching. Also, I can't help but marvel... this one person created not only the most prolific Kernel in existence - but also the more prolific VCS. I have a hard time just getting out of bed in the morning...
- sicp-enjoyer 4y agoSelling has more connotations than earning money. If he is at a Google event he is promoting it.