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Windows Switch To Git Almost Complete: 8,500 Commits and 1,760 Builds Each Day (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Back in February, Microsoft made the surprising announcement that the Windows development team was going to move to using the open source Git version control system for Windows development. A little over three months after that first revelation, and about 90 percent of the Windows engineering team has made the switch. The Windows repository now has about 4,400 active branches, with 8,500 code pushes made per day and 6,600 code reviews each day. An astonishing 1,760 different Windows builds are made every single day -- more than even the most excitable Windows Insider can handle.
Say what you will about Mr. Torvalds, but that magnificent bastard has smacked down many a foe over the years. This is really sweet. If the only thing Linus ever did was to invent git, then that would have been enough. But no, he had to write an operating system besides. When history is written, Linus's inspiration will shine forth from the Pantheon of greats.