A Path Less Taken

If you are an open source developer and you have not been living under a rock for years (yes, I know, many have) then you have probably heard of git. Billing itself as “the fast version control system“, git is the distributed version control management system that has become the darling of the hour. It allows developers to work on-line and off-line, to host repositories locally or on the now popular github, to perform merges as the rule rather than the exception. In short, git is to version control what WordPress is to blogging. The eight hundred pound gorilla in a small room.