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I would say truly _revolutionary_. A spectacularly useful tool. And yet, there is something to Devops Borat's quip that in 1990 entire Internet fits in head,

• pjbrunet 12y ago
  Revolutionary, sure. I just think it solves a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place. Like if we could prevent cancer, we wouldn't need revolutionary cancer medication. If I go into Google Docs, I can watch different people edit a document at the same time and nobody is really thinking about version control. I think software development should be the same way.
  • tutufan 12y ago
    Maybe. (I say maybe because I could see it turning into pair-programming-like chaos.) But mostly, git solves a different problem. I find it incredibly useful on my own one-person projects, because it lets me explore forward in numerous directions, branching as I go, and easily roll back and move forward again.
    • pjbrunet 12y ago
      I was just thinking yesterday, it would be cool if I could select a block of code and then pull a slider and walk back and forth just that one block of code while leaving everything else untouched. Anyway, we're way off on a tangent.