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chris_j | 2 years ago

What is meant by 'a bit "FC"' in this context?

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adhesive_wombat|2 years ago

Frantically-cobbled: from April 3 2005, announced April 6 and becoming self-hosting on April 7 by Linus Torvalds to replace BitKeeper after they dumped Linux (the public announcement of BitKeeper scrapping the free version was April 5, but the writing was on the wall for a month or two before that).

Evidence of the rapid initial development can still be seen in the famously...quirky...CLI syntax.