Comment by andrewaylett

I do store all my code in a database. It's got time-travel functionality, the ability to switch into parallel universes, and a nice hierarchical view that lets me find things easily if I don't want to use my language-specific indexes.

Yes, that's git, a filesystem, and an IDE -- and the physical layout of the code isn't the way I normally navigate it. It's useful structure for the tooling, though.

It's definitely true that "using git" or "putting our code on the filesystem" aren't ends in themselves, they are means to an end. If we found a way to meet our requirements that has fewer trade-offs to git then I'm sure we'd jump. Git and filesystems are possibly the worst options for organising code and history, except for all the other options out there :P.