> Subversion was so undeniably superior that everyone was super happy and instant. Git took much much longer as the complexity vs. the win was much more debatab

> Subversion was so undeniably superior that everyone was super happy and instant. Git took much much longer as the complexity vs. the win was much more debatable to people, so it's interesting to see this finally happening - I will miss linearly increasing revision numbers though. p4 and then git were easy sells for large projects. while subversion was faster than cvs with its local hidden copy, many operations were still dog slow as they'd scan the whole repository (this was often worked around by creating lots of small repositories with associated wrapper scripts). p4 and git on the other hand were designed to handle large trees with ease. so for something on the scale of an operating system, browser, or both... the difference in productivity was significant. (tens of minutes vs single digit seconds for basic operations)