Ask HN: What will post-git version control look like?

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After CVS and Subversion we are in the Git-epoch. What will be the next thing? Is there something on the horizon, like the DVCSs that predated git?

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CVS and Subversion is a bit beyond my time and I never had a chance to use them. Mercurial seems to be getting steam?

To elaborate: RCS, CVS, Subversion and Git (moreover Hg, etc.) represent a generation of Version control, each revolutionizing the way we work with source control.

RCS introduced version control

CVS introduced version control with code exchange on a server

SVN introduced version control with atomic committing and repository wide file versions (as opposed to file-specific revisions).

To me it seems that HG is in that sense very close to Git. However I do wonder what might be the next revolution

The Git/Hg generation popularized decentralized version control and made code-sharing easier than ever.

Not quite. It appeared about the same time as git and Hg already lost its battle against git for becoming The VCS Of The Choice[tm].

Even then, Mercurial works in about the same operation model as git.

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