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Exceptional read! I love it.

It's the most complete history of git that I know now. Exceptional!

I'd love to read more historical articles like this one, of pieces of software that have helped shape our world.



> It's the most complete history of git that I know now.

I wasn't going to read the story until I read your comment. I knew the summary of BitKeeper and the fallout, but wow this was so detailed. Thanks!


+! to that. Great read. The field is young and accelerating. History is quite compressed. It's valuable to have articles like this.


If you like computer/software history, I recommend the Abort Retry Fail[1] mailing list.

[1] https://www.abortretry.fail/


(I meant 'newsletter' , not 'mailing list')


the dream machine was a good one, though a bit more historical. http://folklore.org has a bunch of good Apple stories.


Ditto. This was a really nice read!




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