Of course concrete ideas are better. But even armchair criticisms can be important (or at least interesting), to open up the discussion.
While git is good and powerful in many ways, git frankly has many deficiencies, yet everybody treats it as the holy grail of version control. Just because Linux uses it, GitHub exists or something else, I don’t know. The author lists many valid points that are not all sci-fi and that would multiply the usefulness of the vcs sevenfold.
Someone has to point out the elephant in the room.
It could spark the idea for someone to invest in something new and better or for someone to contribute improvements into git.
While git is good and powerful in many ways, git frankly has many deficiencies, yet everybody treats it as the holy grail of version control. Just because Linux uses it, GitHub exists or something else, I don’t know. The author lists many valid points that are not all sci-fi and that would multiply the usefulness of the vcs sevenfold.
Someone has to point out the elephant in the room.
It could spark the idea for someone to invest in something new and better or for someone to contribute improvements into git.