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> And that’s the end of the story, until we move to a fifth version control system at some point in the future.

Is this a hint, or just leaving the door open?

Probably a joke. Unlike most other mentioned version control systems, Git doesn't seem like it's going anywhere any time soon. But neither is Git eternal, heh.

What a sad world it would be if Git were the end of the story, if no one ever built a more compelling version control system. :-)

These two are quite interesting:

- https://github.com/martinvonz/jj

- https://pijul.org

Not necessarily sad.

For example, we will likely use Ethernet until the end of eternity. That's not because Ethernet is perfect. Far from it. But because whenever we come up with new networking technology, instead of coming up with a new name, too, we keep calling them Ethernet and just increment the version number.

I've been using git for twelve or so years. In the last few years I've been working on more projects with non-programmers and more projects involving media and it has made me dislike git more and more with every passing day. I really hope git is not where version control stops seeing innovation; there are a lot of projects for which it is ill-suited.

> In the last few years I've been working on more projects with non-programmers and more projects involving media and it has made me dislike git more and more with every passing day.

I think you give yourself an answer. Git is used by myriads of wannabe data scientist which only have a faint of CS understanding, create artifacts others have to clean after them.

Replace wannabe data scientist with whatever describes your situation.

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