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Re:GitHub Git Operations Are Down by Over2Chars on Monday January 13, 2025 @09:24PM (#42692715)
I believe he found the open source tools being used (CVS?) weren't good enough, and he started using a commercial closed source tool called "bitkeeper", which rankled the ire of the FOSS community who wanted to eat their own dogfood.

So Torvald's opted to "clone" the features of bitkeeper into an open source version he named 'git'.

That's the story I heard, no idea if it's true.

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Re:GitHub Git Operations Are Down by wongogue on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @01:00AM (#42694204)
They were using BitKeeper for years but git was created when BitKeeper pulled the rug licensing-wise.

Source: A Git Story from https://blog.brachiosoft.com/en/posts/git/

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Re:GitHub Git Operations Are Down by IshKebab on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @02:57AM (#42694837)
Bitkeeper pulled the rug because they agreed not to reverse engineer it and then someone did.
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