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I believe he found the open source tools being used (CVS?) weren't good enough, and he started using a commercial closed source tool called "bitkeeper", which r
by Over2Chars 2y ago
I believe he found the open source tools being used (CVS?) weren't good enough, and he started using a commercial closed source tool called "bitkeeper", which rankled the ire of the FOSS community who wanted to eat their own dogfood.
So Torvald's opted to "clone" the features of bitkeeper into an open source version he named 'git'.
That's the story I heard, no idea if it's true.
- wongogue 2y agoThey were using BitKeeper for years but git was created when BitKeeper pulled the rug licensing-wise. Source: A Git Story from https://blog.brachiosoft.com/en/posts/git/ https://blog.brachiosoft.com/en/posts/git/
- IshKebab 2y agoBitkeeper pulled the rug because they agreed not to reverse engineer it and then someone did.