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Only if those people never have to learn git in those five years. Maybe in some niches they wouldn't have to, but lots would.
by roca 7y ago
Only if those people never have to learn git in those five years. Maybe in some niches they wouldn't have to, but lots would.
- hinkley 7y agoSo you think git will be different from SVN when a new contender comes along?
- roca 7y agoYes. I've been programming for nearly 40 years and I only had to use Subversion a couple of times; I never really learned it. OTOH I have to use git for all kinds of projects. Learning git is essential in a way that SVN never was. I think part of the reason is that SVN never took over from CVS as completely as git took over from everything else. I think another part of the reason is that the number, size and scope of open-source projects exploded since git and Github appeared, and they mostly chose git. Also relevant: the only project that I recently interacted with that was using SVN is LLVM, and it was faster/easier to use the Github mirror than to use SVN.