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Exceptional read! I love it. It's the most complete history of git that I know now. Exceptional! I'd love to read more historical articles like this one, of p

Exceptional read! I love it. It's the most complete history of git that I know now. Exceptional! I'd love to read more historical articles like this one, of pieces of software that have helped shape our world.

noufalibrahim 2y ago
+! to that. Great read. The field is young and accelerating. History is quite compressed. It's valuable to have articles like this.
eliasson 2y ago
Ditto. This was a really nice read!
deskr 2y ago
> It's the most complete history of git that I know now. I wasn't going to read the story until I read your comment. I knew the summary of BitKeeper and the fallout, but wow this was so detailed. Thanks!
fragmede 2y ago
the dream machine was a good one, though a bit more historical. http://folklore.org http://folklore.org has a bunch of good Apple stories.
OrangeMusic 2y ago
If you like computer/software history, I recommend the Abort Retry Fail[1] mailing list. [1] https://www.abortretry.fail/ https://www.abortretry.fail/
- OrangeMusic 2y ago
  (I meant 'newsletter' , not 'mailing list')