Re:Why did Git become so popular?
by jlgreco on Friday November 30, 2012 @02:07PM
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In addition to the points that solutionyogi raises, I don't think that is a very good comparison when you consider the differences in commercial and private RDBMS', and the differences between commercial centralized VCS and open source DVCS.
DVCS (either mercurial or git) seems to be a much more exotic concept for people unfamiliar with DVCS than MySQL/PostgreSQL is to those only familiar with, say, Oracle RDBMS.
I'm not a DBA though, so maybe I am wildly wrong with that thought.
(Also this comparison maps back to the topic incorrectly, in that I obviously greatly prefer PostgreSQL in the comparison, but I greatly prefer git in the other scenario).
DVCS (either mercurial or git) seems to be a much more exotic concept for people unfamiliar with DVCS than MySQL/PostgreSQL is to those only familiar with, say, Oracle RDBMS.
I'm not a DBA though, so maybe I am wildly wrong with that thought.
(Also this comparison maps back to the topic incorrectly, in that I obviously greatly prefer PostgreSQL in the comparison, but I greatly prefer git in the other scenario).