The issue isn't the technology (git, subversion, cvs, etc), it's that developers FOMO and glom on to what every other developer uses so you end up with these huge silos that they inevitably complain about.

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thataccount 13 hours ago | parent [-]

But WHY they glom on to it and not say, Subversion is my point. We can imagine an alternative world in which Subversion mutated into something more like Git. Why doesn't it exist? Because Git came in and everyone decided it was "the answer to all things".

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ValdikSS 13 hours ago | parent [-]

There's a mercurial, a very similar idea built in a very similar times. It was supported by BitBucket until recently.

	▲	thataccount 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I've always liked Mercurial--particularly the simplicity of it.