Git is Not an SCM Never mind merging.It's not an SCM,it's a distribution and archival mechanism.I bet you could make a reasonable SCM on top of it, though.Another way of looking at it is to say that it's really a content-addressable filesystem,used to track directory trees. Linus Torvalds,7 Apr 2005 http://Ikml.org/lkml/2005/4/8/9Git is Not an SCM Never mind merging. It's not an SCM, it's a distribution and archival mechanism. I bet you could make a reasonable SCM on top of it, though. Another way of looking at it is to say that it's really a content-addressable filesystem, used to track directory trees. Linus Torvalds, 7 Apr 2005 http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/8/9 4