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|05On |11Sunday,November 17, 2024 at 12:32 PM, |14Apam (21:4/158.1)|05 wrote:|07

|11a|09> |02Someone else will probably remember the name of the git.. but git the|07
|11a|09> |02source code manager was written because someone copied perforce (a|07
|11a|09> |02proprietary source code management tool that Linus was using for the|07
|11a|09> |02Linux kernel, on the condition no one made a opensource free version of|07
|11a|09> |02it) I think it was the guy of samba fame? that did it, but perforce got|07
|11a|09> |02it) mad and Linus put together git in a hurry to replace it - I think it|07
|11a|09> |02it) was called git because of the guy who made the opensource perforce|07
|11a|09> |02it) tool.|07

The source code management tool the Linux kernel devs were using before git was called BitKeeper. Sometime in 2005, the relationship between the BitKeeper guys and the Linux kernel devs soured and Linus decided to create his own source code management tool.

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The source code management tool the Linux kernel devs were using

before git wa

called BitKeeper. Sometime in 2005, the relationship

between the BitKeeper guy

and the Linux kernel devs soured and Linus decided to create his own

sourc

code management tool.

Ah bitkeeper, not perforce. Thankyou for the correction.

Andrew


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On 03 Dec 2024 at 08:51a, apam pondered and said...

Ah bitkeeper, not perforce. Thankyou for the correction.

Yeah. BitKeeper was Larry McVoy's baby; it was based on
some of the ideas for the VCS stuff he'd done at Sun when
he was working on SunOS, and was a DVCS.

The thing that he did was change the license in a way that
made Linus (and the other Linux kernel people) uncomfortable.
So Linus wrote `git`. Larry and Linus do get along, still.
The `git` in `git` was supposed to be self-referential (ie,
Linus talking about himself). Hey, the guy has a sense of
humor.

The Samba guy (Andrew Tridgell) did `rsync`.

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On 05 Dec 2024 at 06:07a, tenser pondered and said...

The Samba guy (Andrew Tridgell) did `rsync`.

Ah, now I'm remembering Tridgell's involvement in the
BitKeeper drama. He wanted to reverse-engineer the BK
protocol, as he had done with SMB for Samba; this caused
Larry to change the license, which then caused Linus to
write `git`.

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