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The lack of good tooling for SVN is because git is so utterly inadequate at doing it's job. So this created a need for a ton of tools that pave over those flaws
by gmueckl 8y ago
The lack of good tooling for SVN is because git is so utterly inadequate at doing it's job. So this created a need for a ton of tools that pave over those flaws and now the resulting ecosystem is a money making machine.
- jogjayr 8y agoYou're saying git is so bad that an ecosystem sprung up to support it? But if it's so bad why would it have a large enough userbase to support that ecosystem? That logic seems backwards.
- gmueckl 8y agoThe initial users came because of an enormous hype fueled by "Linus made a VCS" and a weird quasi-religious belief in the community that it is better than anything else in that space. Crazy times back then, really.