[chrisseldo]

>"Linus Torvalds said in 2012 that one of his own biggest successes was recognizing how good a developer Hamano was on Git, and trusting him to maintain it."

[kumarharsh]

I came across this email from Linus announcing the handover: https://lwn.net/Articles/145123/

It's interesting how the first ever git project itself was looking for new maintainer almost as soon as it was created.

[vga805]

wow! what an accolade

[Dragonai]

Seconded. I can only imagine how good Junio must be to have earned that kind of praise and trust.