alt Hacker News"Git is forever"
Many things were forever until they suddenly died, but I think this is especially true for git.
I'm not saying this as a git hater, quite to the contrary. I think git is great. I also think git is an ill-fit for the majority of modern commercial software projects and there will be a breaking point where companies realize that and move on.
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"Majority" is massive stretch. There are 2 main pain points:
* monorepo megarepos - but you kinda need system built from scratch that sacrifices a lot in other places to handle that in the first place * media asset heavy repositories - again, different paradigm. Stuff that make Git great like full local history just become impossible to do sensibly when amount of changes per day is hundreds of megabytes.
Most projects don't git that. And for majority git + LFS is enough.
How’s it an ill fit? Outside of large monorepo things, which are not the majority of modern commercial software projects, the main complaint I hear is the learning curve. But LLMs should be addressing that fairly well.
What is git not suited for in modern development? I haven't found any reasons.