[yukinon]

The university could even setup their own private self-hosted Gitlab and use it as part of assignment submission.

10 years ago, my no-name college had a CS degree that required us all to take a "Software Engineering" course that covered the fundamentals needed once you graduated, including Git. We did group-style large coding projects where teams had to submit their GitHub repo at the end.

The prof was able to review who committed what and then hammered us on good commit messages, clean coding style, testing, etc.. I feel that a large part of my career success was due to the early start I had from that course.

[whitfieldsdad]

I think that this would be a great idea, and could also help combat students not doing anything in group projects.

I lone wolfed most of my group projects in college, and don't have any regrets, but, of the projects that I didn't loan wolf, most people didn't write a single line of code, or only contributed in relatively inconsequential ways.

I think that adopting distributed version control systems in higher education would be mostly good.