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> Most of his work on the kernel is sorting out arguments, and making sure things go to the right person.

tl;dr for your tl;dr:

Linus Torvalds is, in fact, a good manager.

So does this makes GIT an ERP system, for geeks with code?

More like MS-project/MS-excel for geeks...

I would say no unless financial transactions became an integral part of git - which isn't exactly a pleasant thought.

I like it: sign off on commits with SHAs of bitcoin transactions to the original developer. "Linus Torvalds gave SirClueless $10.00 for fixing issue #12073"

The bounty is calculated according to the diff's Levenshtein distance

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