The success of hosting large and distributed open source projects, such as the Linux kernel and Python, speaks to the advantages of Git. This is especially significant given that Git is a relatively new source-control tool and people do not tend to switch to a new tool unless it offers significant advantages over the old tool. Let's look at some of the benefits of Git:
- Distributed development: Git supports parallel, independent, and simultaneous development in private repositories offline. Compare this to some other version-control systems that require constant synchronization with a central repository; this allows significantly greater flexibility for the developers.
- Scale to handle thousands of developers: The number of ...
