Not sure if anyone clicked through to this, but there is a rather amusing and insightful thread between Linus and Bram Cohen (bittorrent guy) during git's devel

Not sure if anyone clicked through to this, but there is a rather amusing and insightful thread between Linus and Bram Cohen (bittorrent guy) during git's development about some of the crazy ideas and innovations git has. At the time things like diffing at the object level (versus the file level) were considered insane/very hard. These are the types of advances that git made mostly on its own. http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0504/2153.html http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0504/2153.html (It was two links away from the article. First the 'faster than cp -a' link then, a link on that page.) As a side note: I'm really surprised to see Bram Cohen in the capacity of naysayer on this! "I'd like to reiterate that _nothing_ out there supports moving lines between files, and further predict, with total confidence, that if git tries to support such functionality it will simply fail" Of course, Linus is pushing buttons as always.