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> I think he's actually describing Linus Torvalds there, who, legend has it, thought about Git for a month or so and when he was done thinking, he got to work
by earnesti 2y ago
> I think he's actually describing Linus Torvalds there, who, legend has it, thought about Git for a month or so and when he was done thinking, he got to work coding and in six days delivered the finished product. And then, on the seventh day he rested.
That sounds a bit weird. As I remember, linux developers were using semi-closed system called BitLocker (or something like that) for many years. For some reason the open source systems at that time weren't sufficient. The problems with BitLocker were constantly discussed, so it might be that Linus was thinking about the problems for years before he wrote git.
- indigoabstract 2y agoWell, if you want to take what I said literally, it seems I need to explain.. My point is, he thought about it for some time before he was free to start the work, then he laid down the basics in less than a week, so he was able to start using Git to build Git, polished it for a while and then turned it over. Here's an interview with the man himself telling the story 10 years later, a very interesting read: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/10-years-of-git-an-interview-with-git-creator-linus-torvalds https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/10-years-of-git-an... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git#History
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