Comment by throwaway2037

    > cried of happiness when we moved to git from SVN

You bring back some real memories with this phrase.

I recall moving from RCS and CVS and thinking: "Oh, this is a real improvement." (Forgive me; I was young.)

Then, I moved from CVS to SVN and thought: "This is revolutionary. I can rename and merge." (Again, please withhold throwing your tomatoes until the end of the story!)

Later, projects grew large enough, that SVN became horrible because of how I/O worked on my PCs/networks (file by file, long before 1G network to developer PCs and horribly slow spinning disks).

The upgrade to Git was epic. Sure, the commands are weird and complex. More than 10 years later, I still need to lookup a command once a month, but it beats the pants off anything before. Hat tip to all the people (Hamano-san, et al) who have contributed to Git in the last 20 years. My life as a developer is so much better for it.