21 May 2013 dmarti   » (Master)

Why is git popular?

Projects outside the kernel began adopting Git shortly after its release. A key landmark in Git adoption came when Keith Packard, one of the lead developers of the X Window System, published two influential articles in 2007.

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He saw Git as more robust from an administration point of view, which matters for open source projects that tend not to have a lot of infrastructure support.

After X moved to Git based on Keith's research, a lot of other projects outside the kernel started considering it more seriously as well.

Syndicated 2013-05-21 02:28:47 from Don Marti

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