I'm often asked, "What's the cool new thing?" I'm not a fan of the question, as it should be I that is asking y'all. But still, y'all ask. And I answer: For the past six months, my answer has been Git. I've offered up different reasons almost every time I've been asked. One of my friends said, "Source control management is a solved problem." I agree, for the most part!
Those folks at Git, however, are just... so persuasive. I say they're at Git because they don't just get Git. They live Git. They love it. They aspire to build their next project on top of Git. They see Git liberating the cloud. They see it everywhere. It's like they're brainwashed. They're like Linux junkies in the early years. Like the Gnu herd nerds. Like Mac maniacs. Beset on all sides, yet divinely in love. I see in Git the Emacs-like user passion.
I just wanted to show y'all a few links that explain the brainwashing. I can't possibly make Git's case better than the folks in these links:
Avery Pennarun puts it all out there: Git is beautiful.
This fellow chose Git over Mercurial.
David N. Welton doesn't like Git at all.
R. Tyler Ballance puts it somewhat less eloquently.
Sadaf Azad sees it as a Subversion versus Git thing.