Git in the real world

Centralized Systems become slow beastly giants that require an army to maintain them

Need to be connected to the server

"I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'git'."

 Linus Torvalds

A very smart man got annoyed by CVS too

Git comes with cheap branching and can support many work flows

The community support behind git is unparalleled

Git  != Github

Atlassian's bitbucket is cool too

By the way, none of these are necessary the origin could be on network share

Using Git as a source control

Git bridge for TFS