Re: Request to remove Junio C Hamano as the Git Maintainer

From: Konstantin Khomoutov <kostix@bswap.ru>
Date: Jan 3, 2023, 15:08 UTC
Message-ID: <20230103150814.neevxs7trmzfbi67@carbon>
In-Reply-To: <d84712ed-1504-4d54-a664-63713db570b6@iee.email>

On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 01:25:12PM +0000, Philip Oakley wrote:

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> However, what Linus managed to do was to cut the Gordian Knot of the
> historical versioning systems that had their original designs created in
> the quill pen era, and are totally unsuited for the modern, high speed
> computation and perfect replication digital age. Finally, I have control
> over my versioning system (at least for software)!

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Being pedantinc, Git was reasonably late to the party of the distributed VC systems, and if not for that BitKeeper controversy, who knows whether we would have Git at all ;-)

Still, while I do not think that Git is where it is today only due to its technical properties, these properties are what made it got its initial traction, I suppose. The design is sound and is appealing as that of Unix.