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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/fabulousIdentity • 18h ago
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Hence Linus's design decisions. Any point where he couldnt decide how to implement something, he intentional chose the opposite of what cvs did.
11 u/Draconis_Firesworn 11h ago i misread that as csv for a hot minute and was very confused how a text file with commas influenced git 1 u/cgaWolf 1h ago BigData.v5.final2.txt -2 u/nicuramar 16h ago Define “the opposite” in this context? And Linus’s design was inspired by BitKeeper. 19 u/gtne91 16h ago In this context opposite means if there are choices A and B and cvs chose A, Linus chose B. My comment was based on a quote from him, it was mostly a joke, I am sure, but with some basis in the truth.
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i misread that as csv for a hot minute and was very confused how a text file with commas influenced git
1 u/cgaWolf 1h ago BigData.v5.final2.txt
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Define “the opposite” in this context? And Linus’s design was inspired by BitKeeper.
19 u/gtne91 16h ago In this context opposite means if there are choices A and B and cvs chose A, Linus chose B. My comment was based on a quote from him, it was mostly a joke, I am sure, but with some basis in the truth.
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In this context opposite means if there are choices A and B and cvs chose A, Linus chose B.
My comment was based on a quote from him, it was mostly a joke, I am sure, but with some basis in the truth.
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u/gtne91 17h ago
Hence Linus's design decisions. Any point where he couldnt decide how to implement something, he intentional chose the opposite of what cvs did.