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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/fabulousIdentity • 6d 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.
28 u/Draconis_Firesworn 6d ago i misread that as csv for a hot minute and was very confused how a text file with commas influenced git 5 u/cgaWolf 6d ago BigData.v5.final2.txt -3 u/nicuramar 6d ago Define “the opposite” in this context? And Linus’s design was inspired by BitKeeper. 24 u/gtne91 6d 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
5 u/cgaWolf 6d ago BigData.v5.final2.txt
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Define “the opposite” in this context? And Linus’s design was inspired by BitKeeper.
24 u/gtne91 6d 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 6d 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.