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by all2 1608 days ago
Spend some time in hardware manufacturing shops that don't focus on software. SVN is "easy" and has been in use for decades at this point. The SVN mindset is entrenched.

Migrating requires someone know how to handle the command line, buy in from management, and so on...

It takes a lot to get a behemoth (even a small one) moving in a new direction.

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I actually do work in a hardware manufacturing company at the moment. We use git. But anyway, hardware manufacturers are a tiny proportion of all companies that write software.

Obviously it's hard to get good numbers but if you look at job adverts on https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/ they say 778 ads for Subversion and 9579 for git.