On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 01:25:12PM +0000, Philip Oakley wrote: [...] > 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)! [...] 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.
