{"id":616,"date":"2008-02-02T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2008\/02\/02\/git-is-the-next-unix\/"},"modified":"2008-02-02T09:00:58","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T14:00:58","slug":"git-is-the-next-unix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2008\/02\/02\/git-is-the-next-unix\/","title":{"rendered":"git is the next UNIX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alumnit.ca\/~apenwarr\/\">Avery Pennaru<\/a> posted a blog entry on <a href=\"http:\/\/alumnit.ca\/~apenwarr\/log\/?m=200801#31\">git is the next UNIX<\/a> where he hypothesizes that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\ngit is a totally new way to operate on data&#8230; Git was originally not a version control system; it was designed to be the infrastructure so that someone else could build one on top&#8230; Git is a platform&#8230; Much like Unix itself, git&#8217;s actual software doesn&#8217;t matter; it&#8217;s the file format, the concepts, that change everything.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So the underlying ideas are what makes git very powerful.  Interesting thoughts.  I&#8217;ve played around with using git but I still can&#8217;t see it past a version control system at the moment.  A VCS that still has very weak Windows support which is a serious problem for getting a TEAM of people to actually use the system.  But I see that Windows support slowly <a href=\"http:\/\/git.or.cz\/gitwiki\/WindowsInstall\">moves forward<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, I want to believe the hype in git but show me some real-world examples instead of pie in the sky thoughts, please?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avery Pennaru posted a blog entry on git is the next UNIX where he hypothesizes that: git is a totally new way to operate on data&#8230; Git was originally not a version control system; it was designed to be the infrastructure so that someone else could build one on top&#8230; Git is a platform&#8230; Much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1029,972,260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source","category-programming","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}