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Without needing to worry about setting up a web frontend, I can quickly and easily have as many free and lightweight repos as I want, on any server I own, with
by asymptosis 5y ago
Without needing to worry about setting up a web frontend, I can quickly and easily have as many free and lightweight repos as I want, on any server I own, with support for ssh certificate authentication. And if the server goes down, Git is offline-first, so I can keep working in my local repos until I can fix the server or relocate the repos.
Assuming that Git is bad because you saw some bad stories on Hacker News is like concluding that prehistoric people all lived in caves just because that's where the evidence was preserved. Most people who use Git aren't complaining about it, they're just quietly using it.
- leephillips 5y agoThat’s it. It didn’t win because of some mysterious social network effect. It won because it is superior. It is beautifully designed. It does everything that it needs to do the right way. People had confidence in it because they knew that was what the kernel developers use.
- underwater 5y agoGit is beautifully designed. The command line interface, not so much.
- leephillips 5y agoFair enough.
- HWR_14 5y agoIt beat Mercurial (which has the same properties) because of social network effect. All tooling has a social network effect.