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> git won for good reasons, it's clearly better than what came before it.

You guys keep covering your eyes and ears, pretending that Git and SVN were the only players on the VCS market. That was not the case.

Sure, SVN had problems and people wanted something better, but Git was far from the being the best alternative for the average software development team.

> It may be popular to shit on it now

I was shitting on it 10 years ago, along with a small minority, and for good reason. Unfortunately, the hype was too strong, and we are where we are.




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