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if anything owes its success to being flavor of the month, it's git. mercurial was probably a better dvcs in the end, and svn wasn't all that bad before both of
by qntmfred 3y ago
if anything owes its success to being flavor of the month, it's git. mercurial was probably a better dvcs in the end, and svn wasn't all that bad before both of them. and as impactful as github has been, we had svn-based online open-source communities before git too. git/github was just there at the right time/place imo.