Will Git Be Around Forever? A List of Possible Successors
summary
Asks whether Git survives to 2030 and answers with measured specifics: Git stays likely top because of massive open‑source support and hosting (about 19 hosting sites), but alternatives matter — Fossil stores ancestors and descendants in a single SQLite file and demos show its built‑in web UI works but risks large-file scaling; Pijul uses a patch‑based history with deterministic application (interactive recording, dependency ordering), is still pre‑1.0 and could grow if hosting and 1.0 stability arrive; Plastic targets game studios and remains niche.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 1:12Version Control 'By USB Stick'
- 2:35Teaching a course on Git
- 9:55Killer features. prediction variable #1
- 12:30Hosting platform support.
- 13:422010 Subversion 43% Git 19% Mercurial 16%
- 15:10The Browser Wars
- 42:38Predictions
- 47:12Any questions?
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