KernelTrap: Using Git For More Than The Kernel | Linux Today

KernelTrap: Using Git For More Than The Kernel

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 17, 2005

“A discussion was raised as to whether or not GIT would be a
service that should be provided by development websites like
SourceForge. Linus Torvalds suggested that this would be a good
match-up. ‘The git architecture is admirably suited to an
_untrusted_ central server,’ Linus explained, ‘i.e. exactly the
SourceForge kind of setup.’ He went on to explain, ‘with git,
developers don’t have to trust SF, and if SF is down or something
bad happens (disk crash, bad backups, whatever), you didn’t ‘lose’
anything–the real development wasn’t being done at SF anyway, it
was a way to _connect_ the people who do real development…'”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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