[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]
“Linus Torvalds didn’t want to change software configuration
management tools; however, business and open-source philosophy
problems left the Linux founder with no choice but to abandon
BitKeeper and create his own system: Git.“SCM programs are used to control the flow of updates and track
program changes. In a project as large as Linux—more than
17,000 files—this can be very difficult and very slow…”
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