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by gruseom 6344 days ago
Seriously???

Well, half-seriously. History makes it very clear that you can't tell in advance what someone will be remembered for... often the thing that everyone thought was the biggest deal is just forgotten. Certainly it doesn't matter what Linus thinks about it.

I'd say git is a lot more than an ok-ish version control system because of two things: its design (hashes and all that) and its efficiency. We were using darcs before, which is fine, but after using them both extensively I can say that they are two systems that aren't in the same league. Even their leagues aren't in the same league. Git is so much more powerful that you begin to have new ideas - that's the point of my original comment.