I was at a Raleigh.rb meeting last night, and at one point somebody was talking about Git and how it was the best thing since sliced bread. This got me to thinking…

What’s so great about Git. I guess I just don’t “Git” it. I was explaining to Rick DeNatale, one of my coworkers, that I’m sure it has some really interesting features but I’m not sure that they’re useful in all situations. For me, I don’t see any real benefit to being able to commit to a local repo if I’ve still got to merge/copy/whatever it into the master repo.

Git’s collaboration features are interesting, but I’m not sure that’s something that I would really take advantage of. I just don’t have a need for it. I suppose if I were working on some hip open source Rails project, they’d probably be useful, but at the moment, I’m not.

The one feature that would be useful across the board is Git’s tiny footprint. At the meetup last night, one of the speakered showed that the entire Git repo of Rails core was smaller than an svn checkout of trunk. Now that’s pretty amazing.

So, until I see any real benefit for myself, I’m fine without it. Besides, I’ve got enough other new tools/languages/frameworks to learn…