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by LeoNatan25 3932 days ago
No. git was not created to make a hostile development environment.
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BillinghamJ 3932 days ago
Given its name, and its creator, I wouldn't necessarily make that assertion so absolutely...
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DonHopkins 3932 days ago
Working on the Linux kernel was already a hostile environment before Linus wrote git.

But it's fair to say that he created git for a exiting hostile development environment.

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icelancer 3932 days ago
Oh yeah? Why is it git blame when it was svn praise?
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samuellb 3932 days ago
"svn praise" seems to be simply an alias for "svn blame". Try "svn praise --help"
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ta0967 3932 days ago
it was svn blame at first: http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2002-08/2058.shtml
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