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I work in video games where everyone uses Perforce. It's not perfect but I think it's vastly superior to Git. I can train someone whose never even heard of source control how to use it in 5 minutes.

Git might qualify as best FREE version control system anyone's come up with so far. But best? No, no I don't think so.

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>Git might qualify as best FREE version control system...

No way it is the best. I think Mercurial easily holds the winning position for the version control with most power to weight ratio...

Agreed. I've used Perforce for a long time and it just clicked from the start. A lot of people swear by DVCS, but somehow I've always worked on projects where centralized VCS makes more sense. I wonder what the difference is? It can't be just about size, because Google uses centralized and Linux uses distributed, and both seem to be happy...

It's about organization structure. Centralized organizations where work is assigned top-down and/or where people working on the same part of the code base are likely to be in the same timezone (if not in the same office) are better served by a centralized VCS which is simpler to understand and mirrors how the organization works.

Open Source will probably never produce a good centralized VCS because it's not a problem that exists for Open Source projects.

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