Well by "validating git" aren't you by proxy validating its design by its creator?

Or am I missing something key here? Yes of course it's been extended by very smart people has new features etc etc...but a weekend project that was robust enough to handle the Linux kernel codebase for him? That's is no small feat.

Oh yes perhaps its the new meme among developers that there are no real genius architects and coders and that anyone could have done it really so why distribute props to any one creator?

Yeah given my experience I have a hard time buying into that mindset.