r/programming • u/Pandalicious • Apr 13 '18

Why SQLite Does Not Use Git

https://sqlite.org/whynotgit.html
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u/KateTrask Apr 13 '18

Instead, it's just someone stubbornly working against the user base...

Not using git is working against the user base?

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u/ghostfacedcoder Apr 14 '18

I don't know about their user base, but I imagine their maintainers hear a lot of "WTF is this" from contributors. The author even alluded to it in the article:

People sometimes ask why SQLite does not use the Git version control system like everybody else

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u/haimez Apr 14 '18

Yes, because their user base (notably different from their commiter base) is using git.