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A Git story: Not so fun this time

Table of contents Linus Torvalds once wrote in a book that he created Linux just for fun, but it ended up sparking a revolution. Git, his second major creation, also an accidental revolution.

An open client combined with the ability to accurately import into other source code management tools would have been a big step forward, and should have allowed BitMover to flourish in the commercial environment while still being used by the free software community. In software development terminology, comparing low-level infrastructure to plumbing is hard to trace, but the use of “porcelain” to describe high-level packaging originated in the Git mailing list. Earlier, I was producing as many patches as ideas cross my mind, throwing all of them at the list to see which ones stick, relying on somebody with a good taste upstream to drop all the bad ones.

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