And we're all happy CVS users.
I met him 15 years later. We had some casual chat about this and that. And at some point he said—
Well, I have to give you a bit more of the context. He was a junior front-end (React, ofc) developer at that point. Yes, 15 years later! He just arrived into the profession due to his wild incompetence. Although he sold himself as a senior to the company! Still, he was very incompetent, and I had those wild eyes of wondering how on Earth some company would even hire such a guy, not to say giving him a senior role!
He was talking about this front-end thing. That there’s that other OS, Ubuntu, and he thinks he’ll try it instead of Windows. As drumroll for some reason (for some reason!) this git thing works better on Ubuntu than it works on Windows. My first try of Linux was like 15 to 20 years before the talk, so I was like spilling my coffee on him with laughing.
And here is your comment, casually pretending everyone on HN is aware of that history of git. And that it’s that git guy is somehow related to this Ubuntu thing, you know.
(For a long time, before git and subversion, even though the official freebsd repo was in CVS, a lot of development happened in perforce)
Interesting - that I didn’t know. Based on my personal p4 experience, I’m sorry anybody else had to use it.
That said - nobody has mentioned that git (and hg) was preceded and directly inspired by Larry McVoys BitKeeper[0]. Indeed, I’ve heard rumor that both “git” and “mercurial” were named after people’s perceptions of others personalities during the Linux/BitKeeper breakup/debacle.