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Perfection within the week (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 109 points 4 weeks ago

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.)

[-] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 41 points 4 weeks ago

Not to mention years of using BitKeeper and knowing exactly what he wanted.

[-] Rogue@feddit.uk 9 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] mmddmm@lemm.ee 36 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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.

[-] Fijxu@programming.dev 28 points 4 weeks ago

I was going to say this. Linus took some months to think about the design of Git before even writing it.

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 27 points 4 weeks ago

Like you're fucking supposed to.

[-] tribut@infosec.pub 9 points 4 weeks ago

Here is one interview where he says that. It's a great watch, too.

https://youtu.be/sCr_gb8rdEI

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