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Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds
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GitHub interviews Linus Torvalds on twenty years of Git, from its creation in about ten days as a Linux kernel tool to its role in modern software development. He discusses technical decisions, community contributions and the project's philosophy.
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HN commenters cite it for Linus's direct opinions on Git and development tooling, such as calling the SHA-256 migration pointless churn.
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I watched this YouTube video Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds [VIDEO] I was surprised that he only spent four months on it as a maintainer. What a great piece of work by a great software developer.
Read original comment ↗> changing from SHA-1 to SHA-256 for greater security Linus has a different view, he referred to the SHA-256 migration as "pointless churn": [VIDEO] SHA-1 is not broken enough to be a serious issue for git. The migration to SHA-256 has been forced by on git by clueless morons, and it is, in this very special way, similar to the master-main rename.
Read original comment ↗Aha, found it. No you're right it is his own hacked up emacs fork, but he does also say that it lacks color. Found it in the video here: [VIDEO]
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