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Well, except that git was created for Linux by its creator, Torvalds. It still was the author's (Torvalds) decision to use a VCS. But no need to fall into the t
by gouggoug 12y ago
Well, except that git was created for Linux by its creator, Torvalds. It still was the author's (Torvalds) decision to use a VCS.
But no need to fall into the troll. The author of the original thread is obviously clueless.
edit: fixed 2 pretty big typos.
- brokenparser 12y agoSay "Torvald" one more time.
- deleted 12y ago[deleted]
- bigiain 12y agoKeep in mid the story is a bit more complicated than than - Linus/Linux was using Bitkeeper, until their free license to all kernel devs and interested parties went away - _then_ Linus wrote git. The need/usefulness of version control was orthogonal to (and preceded) the decision to write his own (d)vcs. (Edit: misrememebred the actual vcs, originally posted Mercurial instead od Bitkeeper - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitKeeper#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitKeeper#History )
- gouggoug 12y agoAbsolutely. Here's the link to "A short History of Git": http://git-scm.com/book/en/Getting-Started-A-Short-History-of-Git http://git-scm.com/book/en/Getting-Started-A-Short-History-o...