{"id":27879,"date":"2020-01-16T20:34:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T01:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27879"},"modified":"2020-01-16T20:34:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T01:34:34","slug":"is-git-irreplaceable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/16\/is-git-irreplaceable\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Git Irreplaceable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fossil-scm.org\/forum\/forumpost\/b251b6e48e\">wyoung<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=21974942\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/fossil-scm.org\/forum\/forumpost\/b251b6e48e\"><p>I worry that Git might be the last mass-market DVCS within my lifetime. Git effectively has a global monopoly on DVCSes, and I don&rsquo;t see how you replace such a thing.<\/p>\n<p>Replacing RCS with CVS was easy. Replacing CVS with Subversion was a big fight in many places. Replacing the remaining CVS and Subversion repos with something modern may never happen. Replacing Git with something better looks impossible.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wincent\/status\/1214472980115279873\">Greg Hurrell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wincent\/status\/1214472980115279873\">\n<p>My take: scalability is the biggest hurdle (weak spot) that must be overcome; complaints about usability are majorly exaggerated &#x2013; version control has some inherent complexity that can&rsquo;t be elided.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I think that&rsquo;s right. The command-line weirdness is gradually being addressed, and you can mostly avoid it by using a GUI, anyway. The alternatives I&rsquo;ve seen are also inherently complex.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/11\/why-sqlite-does-not-use-git\/\">Why SQLite Does Not Use Git<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/01\/the-largest-git-repo-on-the-planet\/\">The Largest Git Repo on the Planet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/06\/gvfs-git-virtual-file-system\/\">GVFS (Git Virtual File System)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wyoung (Hacker News): I worry that Git might be the last mass-market DVCS within my lifetime. Git effectively has a global monopoly on DVCSes, and I don&rsquo;t see how you replace such a thing. Replacing RCS with CVS was easy. Replacing CVS with Subversion was a big fight in many places. Replacing the remaining CVS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-01-17T01:34:37Z","apple_news_api_id":"75b3e609-7d56-49b6-8c73-b8831ada4324","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-01-17T01:34:37Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AdbPmCX1WSbaMc7iDGtpDJA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1652,377,378,71,376],"class_list":["post-27879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-fossil","tag-git","tag-mercurial","tag-programming","tag-versioncontrol"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27880,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27879\/revisions\/27880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}