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Ask HN: What will post-git version control look like?

1 points by wirrbel ↗ HN
After CVS and Subversion we are in the Git-epoch. What will be the next thing? Is there something on the horizon, like the DVCSs that predated git?

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milla88
CVS and Subversion is a bit beyond my time and I never had a chance to use them. Mercurial seems to be getting steam?
dozzie
Not quite. It appeared about the same time as git and Hg already lost its battle against git for becoming The VCS Of The Choice[tm].

Even then, Mercurial works in about the same operation model as git.

wirrbel
To elaborate: RCS, CVS, Subversion and Git (moreover Hg, etc.) represent a generation of Version control, each revolutionizing the way we work with source control.

RCS introduced version control

CVS introduced version control with code exchange on a server

SVN introduced version control with atomic committing and repository wide file versions (as opposed to file-specific revisions).

To me it seems that HG is in that sense very close to Git. However I do wonder what might be the next revolution

The Git/Hg generation popularized decentralized version control and made code-sharing easier than ever.