[thataccount]

But WHY they glom on to it and not say, Subversion is my point. We can imagine an alternative world in which Subversion mutated into something more like Git. Why doesn't it exist? Because Git came in and everyone decided it was "the answer to all things".

[ValdikSS]

There's a mercurial, a very similar idea built in a very similar times. It was supported by BitBucket until recently.

[thataccount]

I've always liked Mercurial--particularly the simplicity of it.