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Re:Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity by Xylakant on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @12:30PM (#9139039)
Go three post up, read the last paragraph. I'll quote it for your convenience:

> I consider git a perfect match for loosely knit teams that are spread around the world and travel a lot. It's a great tool for OS development, but it's advantages quickly evaporate for teams that sit in a centralized location with a good connection to the server (cable, Gigbit) and only ever work from there.

Re:Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity by Semiapies on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @12:41PM (#9139141)
Yes, and that argument was silly. There are many use cases besides dispersed teams and road warriors where git's weaknesses never actually come up and its strengths are useful. However, your arguments, like TFA's, rely on an unconvincing and entirely unproven premise that git doesn't actually suit most coders' use of it.
Re:Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity by Xylakant on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @01:20PM (#9139490)
> However, your arguments, like TFA's, rely on an unconvincing and entirely unproven premise that git doesn't actually suit most coders' use of it.

No. The premise is "a system is conceivable that has gits upsides and less of its downsides" and look - facebook is even building it.

Re:Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity by Semiapies on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @03:40PM (#9147184)
That's a premise so inane that it goes right into meaninglessness. Everything is "conceivable", especially "something that works as well as what I'm using in every way, but doesn't have problem X". It does nothing to conceive that, though.

As to what Facebook's building, meh. Anyone can try to build a better-in-every-way-for-every-application VCS, but look to TFA for a list of just some of the failed attempts to produce better version control mousetraps. It's more likely that they'll produce something that will be handy for niche uses than something that will be a clear win over git for everyone else.