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Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:

> Git is cheating a bit though. Its primary audience was (and is) the
> various integrators working on the Linux kernel, all of whom are fairly
> competent C programmers.

Do we still have a huge overlap with the kernel people?  I had
an impression that patches from the kernel folks, with notable
exception from a handful (you know who you are), have petered
out rapidly after the first several weeks.