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The World Before Git
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this post was submitted on 20 Dec 2023
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It really was just the (very solid) foundation he knocked out in that time - the ui was horrible back then. Linus just did what was required to get the kernel unstuck.
I started moving the first of my own CVS repos to git in late 2007, and it wasn't ready for the average user at that time yet.
Linus handing it off quickly was the right thing to do, though - otherwise we all might be using something else nowadays, with just the kernel and a handful of projects with similar requirements using it. Many great developers would've wanted to hold on to their baby in that situation, preventing it from growing to its full potential.