Comment by globular-toast
Comment by globular-toast 2 days ago
Actually, no. Git was a technology invented specifically to enable Linux kernel development. It hasn't become any more complex since its inception. The problem is most people aren't doing kernel development and have absolutely no idea what a distributed version control system is, yet they use git, a distributed version control system. I have no idea why we use it, to be honest, but I'm very glad that we do because the previous options were crap. Perhaps Mercurial is better, but git is good enough.
We were using svn before Git and easy cloning (and then PRs) has solved a LOT of problems. There are definitely still some things left to improve, though.