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vintermann
on May 13, 2025
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Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo
> Didn't all this start with Linus getting into a spat with the bitkeeper dev
It's a joke that the bitkeeper dev has two revision control named after him, Mercurial and Git.
bitwize
on May 13, 2025
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I've heard the one that says much like Linux, Git is named after Linus himself.
vintermann
on May 14, 2025
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That's what he says, and it's a sensible thing to say to not keep focus on old grudges, but people were really exasperated with Larry McVoy back in the day so I'm not sure it's entirely historically honest!
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It's a joke that the bitkeeper dev has two revision control named after him, Mercurial and Git.