Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git

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1. C++ is a horrible language, says Linus Torvalds ↗

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2. Critique of DHH philosophy: "37signals' products tend to be so "opinionated" as to be anti-user" ↗

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3. Dear Startup: Please make branching easy ↗

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4. What does News.YC think of distributed version control? ↗

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5. How to Resolve Subversion Conflicts? ↗

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6. Why CVS sucks (humor) ↗

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7. GitHub switches back to SVN, launches SVNHub ↗

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8. Google could pick Git to manage Android code ↗

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9. Git: the minimum you need to know (sorta like a cheat or nutshell) ↗

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10. Git ↗

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11. Git: Bram Cohen vs Linus Torvalds ↗

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12. DVCSs and DAGs (part 2) ↗

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13. Google Code now supports Mercurial ↗

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14. The Myth of the Genius Programmer ↗

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15. Ask HN: Is version control worth learning early on? ↗

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    • Comment by Bjoern · Sep 3, 2009 ↗

16. Subversion moving to the Apache Software Foundation ↗

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17. The fighting's been fun and all, but it's time to shut up and get along ↗

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    • Comment by steveklabnik · Feb 11, 2010 ↗

18. Torvalds: git vs CVS ↗

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19. How Richard Stallman Browses the Internet ↗

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20. How Google Uses Linux[2009] ↗

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21. Guido van Rossum: Thoughts about Python Future ↗

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22. The Merge Button ↗

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23. Discussion of Vim and Its Implementation ↗

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24. Mastering Git Basics by Tom Preston-Werner (video) ↗

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25. Linux 20 Years: Anecdotes from 1998 ↗

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26. Why Subversion is better than Git ↗

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27. Writing and Speaking ↗

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28. Bye Bye SVN, Hello Git ↗

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29. Linus Torvalds won't do github pull requests ↗

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30. Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds ↗

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31. Initial revision of "git", the information manager from hell ↗

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32. Xiki: A shell console with GUI features. ↗

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33. Ask HN: What's the best technical talk you've heard? ↗

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34. Bug 698544 – Background configuration is missing in terminal profile editor ↗

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35. Verbal abuse on LKML ↗

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36. Linus on "acting professionally" ↗

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37. Ask HN: Going back to programming ↗

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38. Why the Heck is Git so Hard? ↗

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39. Why is Git better than Subversion? ↗

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40. Linus Torvalds Receives 2014 IEEE Computer Pioneer Award ↗

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41. Ask HN: Favorite talks [video] on software development? ↗

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42. A look back: Bram Cohen vs. Linus Torvalds (2007) ↗

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43. Why Git sucks? ↗

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44. Project Gitenberg ↗

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45. Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity ↗

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46. Tmux has left SourceForge ↗

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47. GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation ↗

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