> All of those goals are achieved with its design and improving on this foundation is certainly possible. These were all hard problems to solve at the time, given the state of the art was CVS, subversion and perforce.
The state of the art was not CVS, Subversion, and Perforce when git had its first release in 2005. The state of the art was BitKeeper (which you might remember had a certain connection to Linus and git), Arch, Monotone, and Darcs, and Mercurial itself was first released almost simultaneously with git. And one can debate the extent to which git was an improvement on any of those on key features like cryptographic signing or UI/UX.
The state of the art was not CVS, Subversion, and Perforce when git had its first release in 2005. The state of the art was BitKeeper (which you might remember had a certain connection to Linus and git), Arch, Monotone, and Darcs, and Mercurial itself was first released almost simultaneously with git. And one can debate the extent to which git was an improvement on any of those on key features like cryptographic signing or UI/UX.