Comment by speed_spread
4 hours ago
Lack of current-SCM incumbent compatibility can be an advantage. Like Linus decided to explicitly do the reverse of every SVN decision when designing git. He even reversed CLI usability!
4 hours ago
Lack of current-SCM incumbent compatibility can be an advantage. Like Linus decided to explicitly do the reverse of every SVN decision when designing git. He even reversed CLI usability!
Pssst! I think Linus didn't as much design Git as he cloned BitKeeper (or at least the parts of it he liked). I have never used it, but if you look at the BitKeeper documentation, it sounds strangely familiar: https://www.bitkeeper.org/testdrive.html . Of course, that made sense for him and for the rest of the Linux developers, as they were already familiar with BitKeeper. Not so much for the rest of us though, who are now stuck with the usability (or lack thereof) you mentioned...
I think the network effects of git is too large to overcome now. Hence why we see jj get a lot more adoption than pijul.