Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git

Linus Torvalds visits Google to share his thoughts on git, the source control management system he created two years ago.

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[Kresstian90]

We meet again, 240p.

[ChrisKempson]

158 people are using CVS

[truckdrivah]

Wow, 70 minutes went away rather quickly.

[tomiahuca]

@atma Nuts to that. Nothing gives you permission to be that rude and condescending. Also, ironically as he pointed out "git" decentralizes development so he's not directly involved in many of the patches. Good on him to work on it, but he is a complete narcissist.

[atma]

@tomiahuca That's true. If that's a reference to Linus Torvarlds though, it's *way* out of line.

[Meskyan]

What Linus says about how git allows you to develop/release/hot-fix/experi­ment/collaborate in different ways than any other SCM solution is extremely true. A good example is a small utility called "git-flow". You don't have to _use_ this utility to use it's workflow, (it's just a wrapper around git and automates the workflow), but the workflow it introduces is brilliant and simple. It was a big eye-opener for me when I first read the authors blog post about it. Google "git-flow" for more info.

[Meskyan]

I had actually forcefully overwritten one of my 2+ years old open source projects with a whole different project the other day in git as I set my remote to the wrong git repository by accident. Thankfully, because of how git works, I had an exact copy of the master branch locally and resolved the whole destructive issue with a single command. Hell, if I didn't have a copy, one of the 116 forks (contributors), or a core contributor should have one.

[zGollum]

@tomiahuca Sure, Linus didn't get any work done at all.

[tomiahuca]

There are people who get work done, and people who brag about their SCM tools.

[4joules]

thanks

[killer414]

linus FTW!!!!

[GaaraMeepo]

@sadrihsihs used to, now they use git