How many other SCM tools have you used? In my experience git gets a fair deal of hate, but everyone switched over to it because 1) the alternatives are worse an

How many other SCM tools have you used? In my experience git gets a fair deal of hate, but everyone switched over to it because 1) the alternatives are worse and 2) github revolutionized the way that we write and share software. Before git, the most popular SCM tool was SVN, which required you to talk to a central server for everything you do (single point of failure, slower, no offline). I've used mercurial before too, and its approach to branching is pretty painful. I've heard of some enterprise companies needing to use git alternatives for very specific needs or scalability issues, but outside of that IMO the only meaningful downside to git is that there's a learning curve to using it. But it's not much of one - once you understand the mental model and what the basic commands are doing, you can get by just fine. The average person doesn't need to know about git rerere or octopus merging. (also, commits are effectively immutable for public projects, which sucks for trans engineers who change their name)