Revving Up Version Control: From Retro to Next-Gen - Scott Chacon

Get ready to blast off into the future of version control! In this talk, we’ll discover why the technology hasn’t changed much for most of us since the 1970s and what we can learn from other modern online collaborative systems. We’ll explore the limitations of the current tools developers use today and how they could be drastically improved with smarter tools and AI help. So come along, and let’s discover how version control is about to level up and revolutionize your workflow for the first time in 50 years!
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ABOUT SCOTT:
Scott Chacon is the former cofounder of GitHub; now cofounder of GitButler, a next generation version control client, based in Berlin. Scott helped grow GitHub from 4 cofounders to 450 employees over 8 years, eventually being acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion. Scott is also the author of Pro Git, published by Apress and found online at git-scm.com. In unrelated news, he holds a WSET Level 3 certification in Wines and Spirits and owns a dog rescue outside of Berlin.
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[@rjcdowden]

@gitbutlerapp, great talk! I can’t help but wonder why our source control systems limit themselves to just storing text? Our editors have embraced tree-sitter to represent the code in a more structured way. What possibilities are opened up if a vcs embraced something like tree-sitter too?