Torvalds talks about git in this Google tech talk video.
I’ve never actually used CVS for the kernel. For the first ten years of kernel maintenance, we literally used tarballs and patches, which is a much superior source control management system than CVS is.
About two years ago [… I said I’m] not going to touch Linux until I have a replacement for BitKeeper. […] So, I actually looked at a lot of alternatives. Most of them I could discard without even trying them out. If you’re not distributed, you’re not worth using. It’s that simple. If you perform badly, you’re not worth using. It is that simple. And if you cannot guarantee that the stuff that I put into an SCM comes out exactly the same, you’re not worth using. Quite frankly, that pretty much took care of everyting out there.More interesting quotes are in the Wikipedia article on git.
