How does this coverage hold up? It was a fun read from back in my highschool days, when I was still five years from trying Linux on my own AMD Thunderbird 1Ghz. It wasn’t until 2008 that I tried again and it stuck.
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Edit: my below comment was actually wrong. They actually do use git.
Thanks for sharing. What I find most interesting is that Linus is still using the same email-based software development methods for the kernel while the rest of the software engineering world has evolved to use his other invention, git, for that. I’m kind of second-hand embarrassed for those geniuses who have yet to adopt proper version control for (what I’d argue is) the most important project in the computing world.
Here’s a far more nuanced explanation from Spore’s reply to this comment :
Git and Email are not mutually exclusive. In order to collaborate with git, you need and only need a way to send your commits to others. Commits can be formatted as plain-text files and sent through emails. That is how git has been used by its author from literally the first release of it.
Honestly I’m surprised that so many people don’t know how git can be used without those repository hosting sites. That’s one way to use it, not the only way. And it’s not even the way it was originally designed for.
Checkout git format-patch.
I, for one, was quite ignorant of that fact.
What? Linux does use git for version control.
Is this article (and the many sources I see confirming it) inaccurate then?
https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2020/08/25/linux_kernel_email/
I’m happy to be wrong if you have any evidence to refute what I’ve written.
Ps. I’m talking about the kernel.
Git and Email are not mutually exclusive. In order to collaborate with git, you need and only need a way to send your commits to others. Commits can be formatted as plain-text files and sent through emails. That is how git has been used by its author from literally the first release of it.
Thanks for the insight. I’ll edit my comment to point to yours.
You know that git is also Linus’ project, right?
You’ve read your last complementary article this month. The second Library of Alexandria doesn’t burn down, it gets locked behind a paywall.
