[Rinzler89]

Something being popular doesn't mean it's universally good everywhere and loved by everyone. Windows and Teams are also popular, almost every company uses them, that doesn't make them good. Diesel ICE cars are also highly popular in Europe even though they're much worse for our air quality and health. Do you see the issue with using popularity as an argument?

I've met many devs who hate git with a passion but they just have to use it because management said so and because evry other workplace now uses it, just like Teams and Windows. Not saying git is bad per se, just pointing out the crater of pitfalls it opens up.

[frankjr]

Right but the world is bigger than corporate and yet I don't see anyone choosing anything else for their pet project large or small either. If Git was such a pain to use, wouldn't a lot of open source projects use something else? I know OpenBSD uses CSV, SQLite uses Fossil.. I can't honestly think of anything else non-Git right now that I use (I'm sure I'm missing some).

Years ago when private repositories were still a paid feature on GitHub, you could use Bitbucket, which had them for free, and offered Git and Mercurial. A few years later Bitbucket announced they were removing Mercurial support because "Mercurial usage on Bitbucket is steadily declining, and the percentage of new Bitbucket users choosing Mercurial has fallen to less than 1%".

https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-b...

[Rinzler89]

>I don't see anyone choosing anything else for their pet project large or small either.

I also don't see anyone else choosing to breathing anything else than oxygen either. It's not like they have so many other options when the job market requires git and most coding tutorials also feature git and schools also use git, so the entire industry decided to use git despite other options existing.

Again, that doesn't mean git is bad or that is loved by everyone or that it's the best. Betamax also lost to VHS despite being technically superior. A lot of victories are won by the lesser product given enough inertia and being at the right time and the right place. Kind of how Windows and SAP got entrenched in the 90s. People and orgs were buying into it because everyone else was also using it so your only choice was to use it too no matter your own opinions on it. What were you gonna do? Piss against the wind and torpedo your hiring prospects by pigeonholing is some other "better" tool that nobody else uses?

I don't remember what VCS I used at my first job in the embedded industry but that one was hands down way better, easier and fool proof compared to git, with a nice GUI long before GIT GUI tools were even remotely good, it just didn't survive there long term because it costed a fuck tonne of money in licensing fees for the org. You can see where this is going, right? When it comes to bean counters, free beats paid every day regardless of most other arguments.