> it has sequential commit numbers That right there illustrates the disconnect that causes some people to dislike git while others love it. Git is truly distri

> it has sequential commit numbers That right there illustrates the disconnect that causes some people to dislike git while others love it. Git is truly distributed. In a distributed system, commits are not totally ordered. It is fundamentally impossible to give them all meaningful sequential numbers, because some are really neither newer nor older than others. They are "in parallel". Git excels at truly distributed workflows, and distributed workflows dominate in open source. That's why git dominates the open source world. The basic issue in open source is this: code is shared across organizational boundaries. You need to make and deploy a change today, without knowing or necessarily even caring whether the upstream project is going to take the patch. But your code needs to stay consistent and cleanly mergeable at every point through this process, even as multiple patches are flying in multiple directions.