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Oh Shit, Git?

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464 points Anon84 | 1 comments | 16 Jan 25 18:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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phtrivier ◴[16 Jan 25 21:40 UTC] No.42731255[source]▶
This will feel very weird in April 2025, when we celebrate the 20th anniversary of git.

I was there. And at some point I wondered if I should learn git, darcs, or bazaar, to replace SVN or CVS. Or did I try mercurial too ?

I wonder if the "GitHub" effect has basically killed the need for a newcomer in the space of VCS. Maybe at some point, the yak is shaved enough ?

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jimbob45 ◴[16 Jan 25 21:49 UTC] No.42731364[source]▶
SVN has always worked for me. You don’t have to “teach” people SVN because it’s intuitive and works just fine for the 99% case. I wish we would all stop larping as 1337 hackerz and just admit that git is overkill for the vast majority of people.
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1. grandiego ◴[16 Jan 25 22:51 UTC] No.42731918[source]▶
I agree with your sentiment. I was kind of "forced" to use (and eventually fully migrate to) git because the IDE integration to SVN became more quirky every year. Instead, git is already integrated in IDEs these days.