The Rise of Git

snydeq writes "InfoWorld takes a look at the rise of Git, the use of which has increased sixfold in the past three years. Buoyed in large part by interest among the Ruby community and younger developers, Git has been gaining share for open source development largely because of its distributed architecture, analysts note. And the version control system stands to gain further traction on Subversion in the years ahead, as Eclipse is making Git its preferred version control system, a move inspired by developers and members."

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Bazaar

[mgiuca]

Yet another DVCS article that doesn't mention Bazaar at all. And cursorily swats away Mercurial as "not as large a community."

It seems like just about every argument in favour of Git could be equally applied to any other DVCS. On top of that, the only thing it has going for it is a larger community (and being the creation of Torvalds).

I've argued to wit's end that Bazaar is superior to Git in a multitude of ways (branches as separate file-system directories, optional ability to work in bound mode as with Subversion, revision numbers, explicit notion of a 'trunk' versus merged branches, explicit moves/renames rather than heuristics, commit metadata). Basically Bazaar has a much richer data structure than Git. The last point (commit metadata) is crucial: because Git lacks commit metadata, it is impossible to meaningfully use any other revision control system in conjunction with Git -- what a selfish decision.

Yet all I ever hear is "Git is better than all the other revision control systems because [generic reasons why DVCSes are better than centralised ones]." Such is the case with Scott Chacon's site Why Git is Better Than X, which I wrote a rebuttal of at Why Git Ain't Better Than X.

Re:It's because

[buchner.johannes]

see "git clone --depth"