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Re:Introducing Git protocol version 2 by chrisseldo on Friday May 18, 2018 @01:59PM (#17103533)
>"Linus Torvalds said in 2012 that one of his own biggest successes was recognizing how good a developer Hamano was on Git, and trusting him to maintain it."
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Re:Introducing Git protocol version 2 by kumarharsh on Saturday May 19, 2018 @03:03AM (#17106965)
I came across this email from Linus announcing the handover: https://lwn.net/Articles/145123/

It's interesting how the first ever git project itself was looking for new maintainer almost as soon as it was created.

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Re:Introducing Git protocol version 2 by vga805 on Friday May 18, 2018 @04:04PM (#17104556)
wow! what an accolade
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Re:Introducing Git protocol version 2 by Dragonai on Saturday May 19, 2018 @02:16AM (#17106881)
Seconded. I can only imagine how good Junio must be to have earned that kind of praise and trust.
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