Please use git

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14 pointsamingilani4 comments

I started developing profesinally 2006 in a shop that used CVS, they always said they want to switch to SVN.

I also used Mercurial at Mozilla.

But besides those two, I always used Git anywhere, almost felt like a IT-industry standard to me.

The only thing I read was that Perforce was a big thing in the game-industry.

I find it quite ironical that much of gits complexity comes from it being a distibuted version control system, yet a huge chunk of people (the majority?) use it with Github, which centralities it.

The thing is Github has managed to build a pretty active userbase, to the point that everyone assumes you host your project on Github. It's the best way to get collaborators.

If, however, you feel strongly about centralization, host a mirror on Gitlab. It's still only a single command away.

Sort of. Your local Git repo is fully functional even while you're disconnected.

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