Any system will get dragged down by the need to support all sorts of legacy use-cases. I think there's an xkcd cartoon about this? The core task of a VCS is ve

Any system will get dragged down by the need to support all sorts of legacy use-cases. I think there's an xkcd cartoon about this? The core task of a VCS is versioning and collaborating on text of some kind. Git doesn't do this in an optimal way, so eventually it will get replaced by something better. In the meantime we'll all get on with learning its ins and outs, just like previous generations learned how to use punchcards.