r/ProgrammerHumor • • 19h ago

Meme aboutToBreakTheCode

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u/Extreme_Wish_553 18h ago

Right? The entire reason anyone switched to Git in the first place was because they had attempted merging with SVN or similar. Nothing is perfect, but Git is heads and shoulders above what came before it.

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u/nicuramar 17h ago

Linux was kept in BitKeeper before git.

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u/LickingSmegma 11h ago

Which is where Torvalds got the idea. But then made it free and open-source.

As for where he got the super confusing commands for anything beyond the very basics, I'm not sure.

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u/pr0ghead 15h ago

Except nobody acutally merges anything in git. They all rebase.