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And that this is not just a minor niche use case, "the largest and oldest Git project that is, Linux, uses a mailing list and patch files to develop."
by crdrost 3y ago
And that this is not just a minor niche use case, "the largest and oldest Git project that is, Linux, uses a mailing list and patch files to develop."
- bananapub 3y agoit is definitely not the oldest
- JoshTriplett 3y agoIn the sense that it was the first project to use git (has been using git the longest), not in the sense that it's the oldest project that switched to git.
- smohare 3y ago[dead]
- cesarb 3y ago> it is definitely not the oldest IIRC, the oldest was git itself (it self-hosted early on its development history); git, linux, and sparse are IIRC the three projects that have been using git the longest.
- forrestthewoods 3y agoTBH I definitely consider Linux a niche use case. It’s an outlier relative to 99.99% of projects.
- bembo 3y agoHow can Linux be a niche use case for git if git was made as a version control system for Linux?
- forrestthewoods 3y agoNiche use cases are a great reason to make a bespoke tool! But that doesn’t make it not a niche use case. And it doesn’t mean that tool is optimal for the common use case.
- electroly 3y agoNote that Linux, today, is far from the largest Git project. Oldest, yes. Biggest, not even close. FAANG monorepos are vastly bigger with much higher commit rates. The Linux kernel is quaint, small, and moves glacially slow in comparison. Even if we consider only public open source codebases, Chromium's repo is bigger than Linux by any reasonable metric.