> "But in 2005 Linus Torvalds invented git, which would fairly rapidly obsolesce all previous version-control systems"

> (cries in Perforce)

> Git was a huge improvement over CVS and SVN. Claiming that it rendered everything that came before it obsolescent just suggests massive ignorance of chunks of the software industry.

But this article is for common knowledge. It explicitly says that it does not deal with all parts of the software industry just parts that any hacker would know.

So yes now git is the only version control used for distributed collaboration of source code.