Well I linked this page instead of the original mailing list thread for two reasons: 1. He strips all the 'pissing' out of the matches... the underlying argume

Well I linked this page instead of the original mailing list thread for two reasons: 1. He strips all the 'pissing' out of the matches... the underlying argument got kind of bitter. 2. His commentary summarizes the important parts on one page, and points out the fundamental difference in their viewpoints. Namely, Bram was focused on making the best merge tool, whereas Linus was focused on making something so merging ends up being a small part of the larger goal of versioning the underlying content instead of just files.