[mindjiver]

This really took me back. Back then before Git was a big thing (2010/2011-ish) I had the misfortune to work at a very large user of IBM Rational ClearCase and it was so awful. However it was so bad and so expensive that I managed to get tasked to "fix it". As part as figuring out how to do this I travelled to GitTogether 2011 from Sweden. Lots of Git folks from those days where there, at least I remember Junio, Peff and Shawn Pearce being there. I was so energised from it all I went back and formed a small team that migrated a colossal code base (oh the horror stories I have) over to Git over the next 2 years. The most rewarding thing I did early in my career.

So thank to all of you that made this possible by creating Git, Gerrit and all the life saving tools this industry was missing! The passing of Shawn Pearce was really sad, but he won't be forgotten!