Maybe he'll get so fed up with make that he'll write his own that everyone can just switch to instead of all the crud we have.
Can you even imagine reading the man pages of all the different git-make commands? The syntax?
I hope Linus keeps contributing to humanity and doing what he's doing. He's obviously a great engineer, and if he works hard, he might undo the wrong of releasing git into the world.
I am willing to bet money (let's say 0.1 bitcoins) that there are plenty of people at your university who have trouble with Git. We can haggle on terms, but I'd bet that you'd see 10 people at least struggling with git in an intro course.
Once you learn to give it the right incantations, and learn never to deviate from the path you know, any tool can become usable. But it will never be a part of you and will never make you stronger.
This has crippled a generation of developers and I'm afraid it will be a massive barrier to entry, stunting humanity's growth probably by 10-20 years.
See http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~asampson/blog/git.html for a more in-depth treatment of Git's insanity.
It's the same reason so many new display technologies have failed: its not good enough to be better then an LCD eventually. You need to be better now, and better then the LCD which will come about as evolutionary improvements in manufacturing too. Being a little cheaper in the initial plant cost is meaningless if the plant has been built and we understand its processes.
Which of course is why the commentary on Git is absurd: people struggle with Git? People struggled with CVS. People struggle with the notion of "files" and programming in general. The alternative has to both exist, and be easier to use from the get-go. Not just a different set of traps.
At some level, command-line conventions are arbitrary. "ls" could just as easily be "dir" or "list." "revert" could just as easily be "checkout" in some contexts.
UNIX has never been a zero-learning-curve OS. That's OK. There are other operating systems that fill that role. git is a UNIX tool which is intuitive once you learn it.
The world doesn't owe you anything, and if you don't want to learn git, or any aspect of programming, nobody is forcing you to. There are lots of other things to do out there. Some of them even pay more.
If you are willing to learn what it is that it does, git is actually fairly frigg'n good.
Of course, mayhap I've just not used a better tool.
I've never seen a comment with which I more vehemently disagree.
The parent quote doesn't deserve to be downvoted but it seems to have been massively downvoted for the same reason a massive number of people use GIT who shouldn't - the bandwagon effect.
Git may well be a perfect tool for the Linux kernel but it's still an opaque nightmare for the many average non-kernel-developers who use it as "the new good version control system" (which it isn't, it's only a tool for a specific purpose made by a famous person).
The poster's point is valid - if Linus created a make replacement for his purposes, the effects of everyone else inappropriately adopting it would be horrific (even if it was indeed, a great make for the kernel and just for the kernel).