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Speed was definitely a big deal when git first came into being. However, as far as I remember, the main thing that made git popular was actually Github. Befor
by mikekchar 6y ago
Speed was definitely a big deal when git first came into being. However, as far as I remember, the main thing that made git popular was actually Github. Before Github, various souce repository sites were awful (and in the case of what SourceForge became, more than awful).
- taeric 6y agoI recall that the git-svn bridge had me hooked on git long before github. Also made it braindead simple to migrate an svn shop. We looked at hg. I also dabbled in a few others. bzr, I believe was a popular one. As said upstream. There are plenty of reasons that git "won." Most of them did seem technical. But, I could see things going many ways. For the most part, source control is not a problem most people think they have. Just look at how terrible the data science folks are? And management is stuck in whatever MS is doing in Word nowadays.
- fomine3 6y ago"Plaintext and VCS solve all problems" is not very practical for everyone other than programmers.
- taeric 6y agoThe other fields also have a terrible time recreating anything. So... I kind of feel that they are making the poor choice here. In particular, I have yet to see a successful collaboration that wasn't ridiculously ephemeral in data science or document creation, that wasn't backed by a much nicer format. (Where, ephemeral means that after it is done, it is referenced as PDF, but not directly anymore. Which, to be fair, is the majority of documents that exist in the world.)