The remote control. Napster. The Smartphone. The plastic bits at the ends of shoelaces. All incredible technologies that made what came before both instantly antiquated and forgettable. A technology shift, even a subtle one, can entirely transform an industry. It happened in software development 10 years ago with agile - a once in a decade change to how teams build and ship software - and it's happening again, now, with distributed version control systems (DVCS) like Git. Git introduces completely

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