Git
6 recommend 4 criticize 2 moved to it 2 moved away
Why hackers recommend it
“Instead of using an elegant mechanism, project have built inelegant wrappers on top of git like go.mod which are actual mistakes.”purpleidea, 2026-10-01original comment ↗
“But then we moved to git and only stuff that had a designated owner got moved from cvs/svn to git”Macha, 2026-09-29original comment ↗
“Git hardly ever gets in my way, I have never had to do complex octopus merges or anything like that.”umvi, 2026-09-01original comment ↗
“It then fails if you try to overwrite commits that you haven't seen, and has saved me a few times when working between computers on the same project”acallaghan, 2026-06-01original comment ↗
“This appealed greatly to us, and always meant that it is effortless to undo any operation because it only creates new snapshots”pitkali, 2026-05-18original comment ↗
“with git + RFC3161 attestation of commits, I can prove I made additions when I said I made them”epistasis, 2026-04-25original comment ↗
What hackers criticize
“Making that more accessible than hammering git, GitHub can make sense.”lmeyerov, 2026-10-26original comment ↗
“Most humans don't know about these features, most of us touch the Git surface of endless command line options and get on with our actual job.”pjmlp, 2026-09-29original comment ↗
“why git didn't expand in that direction.”mupuff1234, 2026-08-09original comment ↗
“I switched from the git cli to jj wholesale two years ago now, and I've never considered going back.”Zambyte, 2026-02-13original comment ↗
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- Git → Jujutsu (2 hackers)
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- CVS → Git (1 hacker)
- Subversion → Git (1 hacker)
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