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Perfection within the week
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Only git wasn’t done in 10 days. It was very quickly able to track its own development, but it still took Linus half a year of thinking to be able to make git.
(No, sorry, I can’t find the interview that would validate that claim.)
Here is one interview where he says that. It's a great watch, too.
https://youtu.be/sCr_gb8rdEI
Not to mention years of using BitKeeper and knowing exactly what he wanted.
And it sounds like somebody on the kernel team reverse engineered the internals of bit keeper so they would have a clear understanding of precisely how it worked - but more importantly the ways that it didn't suit their workflow
And it would still benefit for taking a week to formally define its interface before Linus started coding.
Also, basic is famous for being already fully specified and mostly stolen from other people's work.
I was going to say this. Linus took some months to think about the design of Git before even writing it.
Like you're fucking supposed to.