I agree both that nurettin has a great point and that git is insufficient. A recent failure: I use some projects which fail to compile with clang or more recen

I agree both that nurettin has a great point and that git is insufficient. A recent failure: I use some projects which fail to compile with clang or more recent gccs but happily compile with gcc4. Homebrew/linuxbrew don't let me have multiple gccs. I use a server which supports the module system and covers gccs from 4 through 7, so I don't have problems there, but I can't compile some things at all on my laptop. Similarly, CMake can work well, but it often breaks for me when I try to build some other peoples' projects, and is much harder to reverse engineer to fix than Makefile.