> But after closely studying Git I'm a little bit awestruck; Torvalds is a frickin' genius, a true visionary, and somehow managed to just "get it" and instantly, in a flash of insight, come up with "the solution" for version control.
Wait, what? Git was the response from Torvalds to BitKeeper being proprietary and the author being upset with some kernel developers. It's basically taking what was then state of the art for DCVS and reimplementing it, not coming up with some new paradigm. It's a good program, and to my knowledge it was engineered well, but let's not rewrite history so Torvalds is the father of DVCS.
Wait, what? Git was the response from Torvalds to BitKeeper being proprietary and the author being upset with some kernel developers. It's basically taking what was then state of the art for DCVS and reimplementing it, not coming up with some new paradigm. It's a good program, and to my knowledge it was engineered well, but let's not rewrite history so Torvalds is the father of DVCS.