The article is written by a co-founder of github and not Linus Torvalds.
git is just a tool to do stuff. It's name (chosen by that Finnish bloke) is remarkably apt - its for gits!
It's not Mecurial, nor github, nor is it anything else. Its git.
It wasn't invented for you or you or even you. It was a hack to do a job: sort out control of the Linux kernel source when Bit Keeper went off the rails as far as the Linux kernel devs were concerned.
git is just a tool to do stuff. It's name (chosen by that Finnish bloke) is remarkably apt - its for gits!
It's not Mecurial, nor github, nor is it anything else. Its git.
It wasn't invented for you or you or even you. It was a hack to do a job: sort out control of the Linux kernel source when Bit Keeper went off the rails as far as the Linux kernel devs were concerned.
It seems to have worked out rather well.