Not OP, but personally yes. Every code forge supporting only git just further enforces git’s monopoly on the VCS space. Git isn’t perfect, nor should be treated as perfect.
The above is probably the reason why so many alternative VCS’s have to cludge themselves onto git’s file format despite likely being better served with their own.
Interesting new VCS’s, most supporting their own native format as well for various reasons:
- pijul
- sapling
- jujutsu
Sapling is developed by meta, jujutsu by an engineer at Google. Pijul is completely FOSS and was developed by an academic iirc. If you’re okay with not new:
- mercurial
- fossil
- darcs
VCS’s are still being itterated on and tooling being super git centric hurts that.
lysdexic@programming.dev 1 year ago
Yes. There are people who prefer Mercurial than Git, and there are quite a lot of projects out there which still use Subversion.
I really don’t understand the mindset that leads to a belief that a monoculture is good or desirable.
Yes, it does.
That’s debatable, but to each its own.
TCB13@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh well, we value different things it seems.