On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 01:25:12PM +0000, Philip Oakley wrote:

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However, what Linus managed to do was to cut the Gordian Knot of the
historical versioning systems that had their original designs created in
the quill pen era, and are totally unsuited for the modern, high speed
computation and perfect replication digital age. Finally, I have control
over my versioning system (at least for software)!

[...]

Being pedantinc, Git was reasonably late to the party of the distributed VC
systems, and if not for that BitKeeper controversy, who knows whether we would
have Git at all ;-)

Still, while I do not think that Git is where it is today only due to its
technical properties, these properties are what made it got its initial
traction, I suppose. The design is sound and is appealing as that of Unix.