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One good representative of distributed version control systems, is

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GIT. A distributed version control system that was initially designed

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and developed by Linus Torvalds. I'm pretty sure you

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know who Linus Torvalds is. He's basically this guy who

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started and created the Linux operating system. And Linus

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was unhappy with the existing version control systems, and wanted

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a different one. He wanted to use it for maintaining

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the Linux kernel. In particular, he wanted one with some

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key characteristics. For example, the fact that it was distributed. He

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wanted it to be fast. He wanted it to have a

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simple design. And he wanted to have a strong support for

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parallel branches, because many people were contributing to the kernel at the

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same time. And therefore there many different branches of development. And

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finally, he wanted for the virtual control system to be able to

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handle large projects. As the Linux kernel is, and to do

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it in an efficient way. So if you want to get an idea

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of how popular GIT is today, there was a survey performed across the

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Eclipse IDE users, and it showed that in 2013 GIT was used by

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about 30% of the developers. So the, it had a 30% adoption rate.

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So we will use a GIT as a version control system for the class.