Customizing SMF > Forks Discussion
My SMF fork.
Arantor:
--- Quote ---Not a clue. My interest in that kinda thing's minimal, to be honest, coz I doubt I'd understand it.
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It was written by a senior developer for a large project, because he wasn't satisfied with what they were using anyway, and then another member of the project happened to piss off the company that ran the repository. It was all in 2005, for a modest development, by a chap called Linus Torvalds. Yes, THE Linus Torvalds.
Eliana Tamerin:
That Linus? :P
Arantor:
Haha, no, not Linus van Pelt ;)
青山 素子:
--- Quote from: Arantor on January 24, 2012, 04:57:47 PM ---then another member of the project happened to piss off the company that ran the repository
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Given that the product they were using was very tightly controlled commercial software and given that said company CEO, Larry McVoy, had a bit of a hot head when it came to said product, it was bound to happen at some point. I mean, Larry McVoy is awesome talented and all, but some of the licence language around BitKeeper is rather... interesting. It caused Brian O'Sullivan to have to leave the Mercurial (another DVCS) team.
As for Git, I'm starting to learn about workflow with it (I know the basics of VCS), especially working with remote repositories. I'm actually kinda glad that the whole BK issue happened and spawned git, it's really helped push DVCS software along.
Arantor:
Oh, I'm not disputing that it was going to happen at some point, it was more the manner in which it happened (that, ultimately, the first 'blow' was struck by the users rather than the admins of the repository, as it were), and I certainly won't argue that it's made a lot of changes across the landscape.
I just personally won't be using Git any time soon, it just doesn't fit in with how I develop and given that I tend to develop best in reasonable isolation, I don't my adapting to it very easily.
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