[diydsp]

Semiconductors, especially VLSI, have a different workflow from most software projects. There are supposed to be as few releases as humanly possibly due to the enormous cost of each release. There are not expected to be a community of developer/designers, each with their own vector of revisions available for development and testing. It is prized to arrive at a single image which is reproduced as many times as possible in practice, rather than in variation, as the lithographic process favors identical reproductions.

In my estimate, Broadcom is on the cusp of reaching a sublime point I've seen in other, unnamed semiconductor companies, at which the number of combinations and revisions of IP within a family of chips becomes difficult to account for.

So, it's really not even a question of git being overkill - it's a question of whether its source code will persist over many times the length of the proejct. Git will be considered for substitution by those deeply committed to CVS simply after a matter of time, once its institutional bugs have been discovered and patched.