Many open source projects are switching from CVS and Subversion to newer, distributed version-control systems. One of those is Git, written by none other than Linus Torvalds, originally for use on the Linux kernel. Git is becoming increasingly popular for use on other projects, as well. Why?
The Internet has, of course, been essential to the growth of the open source movement. Most communication among the developers of an open source project takes place via e-mail,
IRC, or even instant messaging.