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jordigh on March 25, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linus Torvalds's first public mention of git (2005...

Hm, it was more than that. It involved inspecting network packets.

What I found weird is how Linus blamed Tridgell for the reverse engineering:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/14/torvalds_attacks_tri...

grover_hartmann on March 25, 2015 [–]

I also find that weird.

Could someone elaborate more on this?

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