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I'm not sure git is an example of capital-G Genius, since Linus had been using BitKeeper, a commercial distributed revision control system, for about five years
by sbierwagen 12y ago
I'm not sure git is an example of capital-G Genius, since Linus had been using BitKeeper, a commercial distributed revision control system, for about five years by the time he wrote git.
Git is good, but it's not new.
- the_why_of_y 12y agoMore importantly, Linus took a good look at Monotone, with which git has a lot more in common than with BitKeeper... and the same is true of Matt Mackall/Mercurial of course. The incremental improvements in git/Mercurial were of course significant in getting wide adoption.