> shouldn't there be something better? Mercurial? > why does git get a free pass with "this is how we've always done it"? I'd argue that the git monoculture

> shouldn't there be something better? Mercurial? > why does git get a free pass with "this is how we've always done it"? I'd argue that the git monoculture is a much more recent phenomenon than we remember, and driven largely by the hegemonic status of GitHub in pop-dev culture. Now the possibility of using varied tools seems remote because everyone wants to be in the same place as everyone else. Even the way we talk about teaching and onboarding new devs is couched in terms of GitHub, and GitHub alone.