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Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years

www.zdnet.com Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years

Git is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Here's why Torvalds never intended for it to stick around.

Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years

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Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years

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Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years

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I believe his goto comment on git is that its current maintainer did/does far more work on git them him.
Thank god for that dude.
- Handing over maintainership was not a hard choice. It was very much: "The moment somebody else comes along that I can trust to keep it going, I'll go back to doing just the kernel."
  Priorities
  
  Compare that with someone who wants the appearance of creating/maintaining something, without actually contributing musk of anything...
  
  Nice

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