The Rise of Git 442
snydeq writes "InfoWorld takes a look at the rise of Git, the use of which has increased sixfold in the past three years. Buoyed in large part by interest among the Ruby community and younger developers, Git has been gaining share for open source development largely because of its distributed architecture, analysts note. And the version control system stands to gain further traction on Subversion in the years ahead, as Eclipse is making Git its preferred version control system, a move inspired by developers and members."
Re:Github? (Score:5, Funny)
Well that's really what GitHub is ... much like Facebook treats every "object" (status update, photo, event) as a commentable, likable object, so does GitHub for VCS objects such as commits.
It's quite funny to see a commit with a comment thread attached to it. I saw one that went viral [github.com] and ended up with 88 comments including meme images.
Re:It's because (Score:4, Funny)
and saturnial is even better of course although I hear that aluminiumal is doing well too ;-)