Legend for a reason 💪

[itsfoss@mastodon.social]

Legend for a reason

#linux #git

[pythonlinks@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss I hate git. It has a terrible user interface. After years of using it, I still do not understand how it works. I never could. get rebase to work.

For that matter, I do not like Linux either. Crashes every time I did an upgrade. No problems using freebsd. For my use case, jails are much better than containers.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@itsfoss it's weird when people tell this story they don't focus on what an absolutely disastrous decision this was for Bitkeeper.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@itsfoss I don't know if the Linux kernel would have stayed on Bitkeeper to this very day but I do think a few more years without git would have let the distributed version control sector solidify into a tangle of incompatible systems. We might not have gotten the git monoculture we have today, with all its benefits and disadvantages.

[androcat@toot.cat]

@itsfoss what a git

[svenjacobs@androiddev.social]

@PythonLinks maybe this will help?

https://store.wizardzines.com/products/how-git-works

[sar@social.elderlogs.net]

@PythonLinks

I had debian based distros fall over every single time I tried to move to a new major version. Without fail, every time.

That's one of the many reasons I use Arch now, as it's a rolling distro.

[zekovski@pouet.chapril.org]

@itsfoss
I know Torvalds is at the origin of git.
But can we start to spotlight Junio Hamano who has been actually developing git for 20 years ?

[pythonlinks@mastodon.social]

@sar That is very helpful information. thank you.