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being free is a huge plus; but more equally or even importantly, it's a better product.
by waynesonfire 7y ago
being free is a huge plus; but more equally or even importantly, it's a better product.
- dagw 7y agoWas git really better than for example Mercury or Darcs for most 'normal' projects when it was released? I certainly don't remember it as such. It was certainly better for Linus and the specific workflow problems he had with kernel development, but I don't recall it being better overall at the time. What its release (and the very public BitKeeper spat leading up its release) did do was bring the idea of distributed VCS to the forefront.
- jfkebwjsbx 7y agoYes, it was way better. That is why people started using it outside the kernel. People forget how old Git is and think GitHub started it. Hg back in the day was quite limited and followed other VCS paradigm (which was enforced on you, by the way).