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I'm sure github has done more for git uptake than anyone else involved on the lkml or Linus himself. He should be thanking them for that.

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He should only be thanking them for that if git uptake around a mutilated version of his tooling is something that Linus wants. I suspect very strongly that he doesn't want that. In fact, if GitHub were a less popular service he wouldn't need to spend nearly as much time dealing with people who don't RTFM and submit GitHub PRs despite Linus' objections to them.

> In fact, if GitHub were a less popular service he wouldn't need to spend nearly as much time dealing with people who don't RTFM and submit GitHub PRs despite Linus' objections to them.

Does he even bother reading them nowadays?

If anything, I would say that if git were less popular, its developers wouldn't have to deal with constant complaints that their UI scares noobs.

He doesn't read them. There is a bot for that now. Example: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/445#issuecomment-3203...

Why do you think he cares that anyone else besides Linux kernel developers use git?

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