> I respect git for what it's good at and its power, but from what I've observed it's far from clearly being the obvious choice of source control for closed sou

> I respect git for what it's good at and its power, but from what I've observed it's far from clearly being the obvious choice of source control for closed source software shops. At this point git is the incumbent, which is self-sustaining: developers already know git, so you'd need a really compelling reason to use anything else and take on the burden of training your developers to use it. It helps that git is freely available and is by far the top choice for Free and Open Source projects. Of course, SVN used to be in the same position, but git is such a great improvement that it was able to win out. I imagine git's origins in Linux kernel development may also have been a factor in its early success.