I mean, we use whatever the boss tells us to, because that's how a job works?
git has a better experience than cvs or svn if you're far away from the VCS server, but that was solvable by having dev machines near the VCS server. I've gotten used to the git workflow, but it still doesn't strike me as uniformly better, other than if you're using git, you don't have to deal with everybody always ask why aren't you using git.
Everyone uses git as a centralized vcs. You could remove the distributed part and 99% of people wouldn't notice. The killer feature was branches, which are orthogonal
Case in point. I take it you don't remember (or don't know) that truly centralised systems like Subversion required a network connection just to make a commit? The commit happened in the repository. There was no local clone. You could check stuff out. That was it.
Yes.
I've never had a job in 20 years across 7 companies where I could code and not be on the corporate network.
I am on a person device, remoting into a corporate network desktop, from which I am then ssh'ing into a linux box.
Walking around with code on a local machine is practically a fireable offense.
For the vast majority of companies signing up for Github/Gitlab/whatever licenses, the remote/decentralized part of git is pointless.
So the decentralized aspects of git just add a layer of complexity/indirection for a lot of use cases. Many extra "git pull"s in my workday.
Yeah tbh I don't understand why you corporate guys use it either. I had a corporate job once. Hated it. They used git but, yeah, it could have been anything centralised. But for my purposes and I guess most people using git it's really important that it's decentralised.
Yeah, I've used subversion a bit. The DAG aspect and commits do not require a distributed system. I'm talking about the idea that git users would pull commits directly from other users and "build consensus" across the network, rather than push and pull from a central repo
A problem it has is there is now a generation of developers who don't know why we don't use centralised VC any more.