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Posted Jan 26, 2006 23:01 UTC (Thu) by avr (guest, #27673)
In reply to: git by Peter
Parent article: Tridge wins the 2005 Free Software Award

>It was the enabler for Linus's new workflow.
An enabler is far from a complete solution.
Who knows what might have happened had the mm tree risen as the focal point of patches without bitkeeper?

>but you crossed the line into rewriting history.
A lot of credit for fixing Linus' workflow problem was lying around unclaimed, either because of modesty or because of disinterest, and bitkeeper scooped that all up and claimed it as its own.
Less pronounced dynamics in the background beside the adoption of bitkeeper were also important, just not as easily pinpointed.

I think it's not "rewriting history" but a parallax view on the whole affair. Sure bitkeeper had a role in it, but in my opinion bitkeeper is not the single silver bullet that saved kernel-development that it is made out to be.

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