For many months when git (or really when github) first arrived on the scene I heard nothing else from all the fanboys than how great git was, how crap svn was, and that everyone who was anyone was using git now. That sort of zealous response to new software or services always gives me pause.
Inevitably, I’d ask one of the fanboys why they recommended git over svn, and usually they would come up with one of two standard “reasons”
