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Koshkin on Nov 1, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linus Torvalds: Git proved I could be more than a ...

On the other hand, I can't help wondering what would have happened to Git had it been created by some low-profile programmer.

jolmg on Nov 1, 2019 [–]

Probably wouldn't have become popular as quickly, but it still would have caught on, I'm sure. Don't most popular FOSS projects start with low-profile programmers?

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