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Benjamin Pollack — one of the guys that helped build Fog Creek’s Mercurial based source control system, Kiln — pleads for Git and Hg folks to stop bickering over stupid shit and team up to go after the massive number of Subversion/CVS holdouts.

I can confirm one of his points:

It’s easy, in the yin/yang of Hacker News and proggit, to forget that most developers are not even aware of what DVCSes are or what they do. Yeah. Sounds crazy, I know, but trust me on this.

This is true. My second day on the job at GitHub was spent at the Zend PHP conference. Maybe 10% of the people we talked to had any awareness of DVCS at all, and a big chunk of that 10% hadn’t used DVCS seriously on a project. This was six months ago.

For most popular programming language communities, I'd put the percentage of developers that really understand DVCS under 1%.

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