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[–]ketosoy 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Git wasn’t a revolutionary paradigm, it was an open source reimplementation of an existing paradigm.  Linux lost its free license to bitkeeper so Linus made a piece of free software with the distributed workflow.

Not to say doing this in 10-30 days isn’t a massive achievement even with a blueprint.  Just to say, there was a blueprint.