The funny thing about SVN is that I used to use it a lot for documents and text rather than code. Since there were no local commits, it also backed up my important documents with every commit, and also allowed me to work on documents everywhere. Since I had no need for branching, it worked fairly well. Now we have Dropbox for that.
My experience, too. I feel relieved that even Linus himself thinks it difficult to explain how important the distributed nature of Git is. I wave hands a lot when I'm presenting Git to friends.
This is the video that convinced me to switch to git. I had git evangelists talk it up for the longest time before this, but they never laid out the benefits as well as he does here.
There seems to be an abundance of naught-era news here. On the other hand I get to keep making "200X called" jokes about Hacker News. I win either way, so I'm not complaining.
People haven't seen it, many aren't using a DVCS of some sort.
That's like refusing to keep making foie gras after you've distributed a single package of it. Not everybody gets to be as hipster-early to everything as you were in this case, sadly.
OK fair enough but it's Hacker NEWS not Hacker-good-videos-people-should-watch-but-haven't-yet.
I mean, the video is on the front page of google results if you search for "git". It's plenty well known, don't make some straw man argument that I'm "hipster-early" because I've seen it in the nearly four years this has been out.
