6 ms·

Interesting that Graydon Hoare [1], Rust's (initial) creator is one of the core developers. 1. https://github.com/graydon https://github.com/graydon

• neilk 12y ago
  Graydon also created monotone, which was a big influence on git. http://www.monotone.ca/monotone.pdf http://www.monotone.ca/monotone.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotone_%28software%29#Monotone_as_Git_inspiration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotone_%28software%29#Monoto...
  • LukeHoersten 12y ago
    I think Monotone was an alternative to BitKeeper and BitKeeper was the inspiration of Git and Mercurial. It even seems to suggest that in the link you posted.
    • pgeorgi 12y ago
      Linus played with Monotone before he started git (and it shows) He is even credited in the changelog: http://lwn.net/Articles/131744/ http://lwn.net/Articles/131744/
    • deleted 12y ago
      [deleted]
    • masklinn 12y ago
      BitKeeper not being available anymore was the impetus for starting Git and Mercurial (as replacements for BK), but many of the concepts in Git and Hg come from Monotone, most importantly the use of merkle trees (according to /u/ggherdov Matt Mackall[0] recently mentioned this explicitly on IRC). Linus also mentioned Monotone by name as "the most viable alternative" before starting/publishing git[1] and as pgeorgi noted contributed to the same. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/31yi7d/graydon2_stellar_consensus_recent_programming/cq6c8j4 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/31yi7d/graydon... [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/6/121 https://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/6/121
• psj 12y ago
  He also did a little write-up around this stuff: http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/201698.html http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/201698.html