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Video: Linus Torvalds on git

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Albeit an old video, a fun talk about the merits of git, I was never really bothered with git before this. Haven't looked back.

Same. If it wasn't for this, I'd probably never have used git, or any version control for that matter (given that I hated svn and all the others).

The funny thing about SVN is that I used to use it a lot for documents and text rather than code. Since there were no local commits, it also backed up my important documents with every commit, and also allowed me to work on documents everywhere. Since I had no need for branching, it worked fairly well. Now we have Dropbox for that.

For documents I use Google Docs. It has the added benefits of easy publishing.

My experience, too. I feel relieved that even Linus himself thinks it difficult to explain how important the distributed nature of Git is. I wave hands a lot when I'm presenting Git to friends.

Circa 2007. Still a classic though.

This is the video that convinced me to switch to git. I had git evangelists talk it up for the longest time before this, but they never laid out the benefits as well as he does here.

There seems to be an abundance of naught-era news here. On the other hand I get to keep making "200X called" jokes about Hacker News. I win either way, so I'm not complaining.

http://xkcd.com/875/

Great video. There is a transcript for those who prefer to read: https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/LinusTalk200705Transcr...

I'd watch the video anyway, since Linus is awesome on stage.

Was there some newsworthy reason this rather old video was resubmitted?

People haven't seen it, many aren't using a DVCS of some sort.

That's like refusing to keep making foie gras after you've distributed a single package of it. Not everybody gets to be as hipster-early to everything as you were in this case, sadly.

OK fair enough but it's Hacker NEWS not Hacker-good-videos-people-should-watch-but-haven't-yet.

I mean, the video is on the front page of google results if you search for "git". It's plenty well known, don't make some straw man argument that I'm "hipster-early" because I've seen it in the nearly four years this has been out.

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