Tracy R Reed wrote:
That isn't quite right. Subversion can easily handle projects as large as the kernel. The problem is that Linus has a very specific way of working and needs a distributed and decentralized patch-oriented system. The reason why he developed git as opposed to using svn or darcs or cvs or any of the others have been documented quite well in many webpage and mailing list threads.
And every one of those arguments rings very hollow when the alternative is "Let's write a *shiny*, *new*, *better* one! Which, BTW, doesn't work as well, isn't as fast, and doesn't have as many features. And which everybody is going to gateway into an actually useful version control system."
I find "git" to be an appropriate project moniker given Linus' behavior and why the project came to be. (Google: git british slang)
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