[quietbritishjim]

This is one of the most ridiculous comments I've ever read on Hacker News. You really think git became popular because someone wrote up a branching convention for it?

Git became popular because it was one of the first two open source distributed version control systems. Compared to the least-bad open source (non distributed) version control system before, SVN, the native branches and the ability to have a local copy of the whole tree were self evidently a revolution.

(The other one was Mercurial by the way, released at almost exactly the same time as git. Partly git won that race because of the cachet of being written by Torvalds and being used for the kernel, but I suspect mainly it was due to the existence of GitHub.)

Aside from the above, it's also just clearly not true that git flow was particularly common. It's no good claiming anyone that disagrees is in a bubble. We all have access to GitHub! Look for yourself at some random repos (and make sure you sample a few different languages). It will verify my experience of looking at dozens, probably hundreds, of repos over many years: the number of people using git-flow is, to a first order approximation, roughly zero.

[whoknowsidont]

The time you spent writing this comment you could have been googling.

I know it's within HN's nature to be contrarian for the sake of being contrarian but this is absurd.

[quietbritishjim]

Your previous comment was ludicrously arrogant and overconfident ("You're having it explained to you.") especially given that you're wrong.

Rather than lower myself to your level, I carefully explained the reality of the situation, complete with a mention of how I actually did check what you said (despite having overwhelmingly enough experience of version control to already be certain it's nonsense).

Clearly you didn't do the reasonable thing of rethinking your understanding or checking for yourself because you took your arrogance up a notch by telling me to do a Google.

Please get a grip on yourself.