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Likewise, Git isn't the only distributed source control solution... and probably not even the best, as detailed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1724

• rovr138 8y ago
  There’s no server with Git. You only have remotes. The fact you can use a server and others as well is a byproduct. Regarding pull requests, GitHub’s implementation is their own, but Git does have `requests-pull`, https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull
• veddox 8y ago
  I still mourn the passing of Bazaar (Canonical's CVS, developed in tandem with Git but abandoned some years back). It was a lot easier to learn and use than Git and had a beautifully clean Python codebase. Unfortunately, it was also slower than Git and not as powerful, and eventually just lost out in the survival of the fittest... Though having said that, it's still alive in the Ubuntu universe, and there's a community effort underway to keep up maintenance and port it to Python3, under the new name of Breezy.
  • stevekemp 8y ago
    Don't forget "darcs". That had a lot of promise, but suffered from at least one exponential timing issue - where it would get into a state which took "forever" to resolve.