Jump Start Git, 2nd Edition

Chapter 10: Conclusion

As this book has guided you through the uses of Git, the focus has been on using it to manage a codebase. This is the most common use for Git, but certainly not the only one. In this concluding chapter, I’d like to discuss Git’s meteoric rise, and then give you a glimpse of other innovative uses of Git, as well as its limitations, alternatives to Git, and what the future holds.

Git’s Meteoric Rise

Back in 2009, over 57.5% of repositories used Subversion, whereas Git only had a 2.4% share of the SCM market, according to the Eclipse Community Survey. Git’s rise in popularity has been so tremendous that the question of a primary source code management system typically doesn’t appear in recent developer surveys, with tools ...