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The Future of Git

By glitchdata Team 1 min read

git_workflow1git_workflow1 The future of Git is bright. It displaces probably every Code-Versioning System (CVS) system out there, and its open sourced (GPL2)

So what is being displaced by Git?

  • Mercurial
  • svn
  • cvs

So what is great about Git? It’s flexibility, and ability to manage code in any code-management workflow that you can think of. Some examples are:

  • Local development (for Individuals)
  • Hub-Spoke (for Teams)
  • MegaHub-Hub-Spoke ( for multiple Teams)
  • Spoke-Spoke (for peer-to-peer development)
  • Spoke-Spoke-Hub-Spoke-Spoke (for peer-to-peer and Teams)
  • and the combinations go on…

So what unique concepts drives the unique distributed development capability of Git? These are:

But of the key strengths of Git is the adoption by the linux community. Git is the brainchild of Linus Tovalds (the creator of Linux).

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