On 2014 Jan 14, Hilmar Lapp commented:

While I agree with the advantages the author advocates for Git, any distributed version control system (DVCS) can in principle have the same. There are several other mature and widely used DVCSs, in particular Mercurial (Hg) and Bazaar (Bzr), with similarly sophisticated repository hosting platforms and web interfaces available (Bitbucket and Launchpad, respectively). Thus, while Git does have great potential for facilitating reproducibility and transparency in science as the author argues, it is DVCSs in general that do, in contrast to client-server oriented VCSs, and Git is just one example of those, even if a particularly good one.

This is indeed mentioned in the text, albeit only briefly, and is thus easily missed. In particular, I wish the title had a reference to distributed version control, rather than only to a single product that implements DVCS.

On 2014 Jan 14, Hilmar Lapp commented:

While I agree with the advantages the author advocates for Git, any distributed version control system (DVCS) can in principle have the same. There are several other mature and widely used DVCSs, in particular Mercurial (Hg) and Bazaar (Bzr), with similarly sophisticated repository hosting platforms and web interfaces available (Bitbucket and Launchpad, respectively). Thus, while Git does have great potential for facilitating reproducibility and transparency in science as the author argues, it is DVCSs in general that do, in contrast to client-server oriented VCSs, and Git is just one example of those, even if a particularly good one.

This is indeed mentioned in the text, albeit only briefly, and is thus easily missed. In particular, I wish the title had a reference to distributed version control, rather than only to a single product that implements DVCS.