Subversion still exists. So does Perforce. There may be others.
This mental model fits those models in the code. It also fits Git-Flow. Those are all authoritarian.
So is everything Linus produces.
But, the secret genius of Linus is that he creates things with branchier futures than most creations and then he lets them wander around, becoming even more aggressively future-branching. No, actually . . . the secret is what allows him to do that. It is at least two derivatives of "creates branchy things . . . go!"
This mental model fits those models in the code. It also fits Git-Flow. Those are all authoritarian.
So is everything Linus produces.
But, the secret genius of Linus is that he creates things with branchier futures than most creations and then he lets them wander around, becoming even more aggressively future-branching. No, actually . . . the secret is what allows him to do that. It is at least two derivatives of "creates branchy things . . . go!"
Thus git. Thus Linux.