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Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years (www.zdnet.com)
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[–] theotherbelow@lemmynsfw.com 82 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I believe his goto comment on git is that its current maintainer did/does far more work on git them him.

Thank god for that dude.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 73 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Handing over maintainership was not a hard choice. It was very much: "The moment somebody else comes along that I can trust to keep it going, I'll go back to doing just the kernel."

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[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Compare that with someone who wants the appearance of creating/maintaining something, without actually contributing musk of anything...