> I don't particularly remember Linus making any push for git to be generally popular.
Outside of giving one of the highest visibility tech talks in history, at Google (back when Google was the mega hip FAANG), declaring Subversion (the then leading SCM) brain dead?
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> declaring Subversion (the then leading SCM) brain dead?
I remember that more as berating the incumbent leader in non-distributed VCSs, than promoting a specific DVCS, and that git wasn't mature at that point (the move from BK had not happened). Though maybe my remembered timeline is muddled, do you have further reference to that talk so I can verify details?
Outside of giving one of the highest visibility tech talks in history, at Google (back when Google was the mega hip FAANG), declaring Subversion (the then leading SCM) brain dead?
Marketing works in many different ways, as does signaling. Geeks wear suits, too, their suits just aren't composed of suit jackets and suit pants, they're composed of t-shirts and jeans.