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Perfection within the week (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 days ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 39 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Rogue@feddit.uk 7 points 5 days 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