Re: On the popularity of git [Was: Git question: when using branches, how does git treat working files when changing branches?]

[joakim]

Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello, David.
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 02:21:47PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>> At some point of time you should develop a theory as to why Git actually
>> managed to become the most popular version control system in spite of
>> the meaning of its commands not being obvious as soon as you can wave
>> around an English language certificate.
>
> I've been wondering about git's popularity for some long time.  That
> git's complexity is not necessary in a powerful VCS is demonstrated by
> the counterexamples of hg and (to a lesser extent) bzr.
>
> git had (and has) Linux behind it, thus giving a lot of hackers being
> forced to learn git early on.  This surely gave git a huge advantage in
> numbers at the start of the competition.
>
> But I think the real reason is that there are lots of hackers around,
> possibly mainly the younger ones, who revel in their mastery of
> complexity rather than attempting to sidestep and avoid it.

http://xkcd.com/1597/

>
>> -- 
>> David Kastrup

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Joakim Verona