the fact that 10k tutorials exist says way more about the human urge to write, document, and share information than git itself. the 10k number is also a made up statistic. It might be 2k, it might be 20k. i use git daily and often fairly intensively, and i've read perhaps 5-10 tutorials, so the idea that "git requires 10k tutorials" just doesn't make any sense.
if anything, the fact that something with good search-fu might find a tutorial more specifically catering to their background and needs seems like a huge plus for git.
> Using P4 is: Download P4V, install plugin for $EDITOR, and double click on a changelist to submit.
"a changelist" ... "what the hell is that? I've been editing my files, I don't have "a changelist"."
and anyway, joining a company that's already using P4 is never, ever going to be that simple (even if it was actually that simple as the first user, which I question)
Honestly, when our backend team merged into one that was using Perforce for the backend learning how to use Perforce wasn't realistically even a blip on the radar of what to get used to. I was against it at the time for what we were doing but with the benefit of hindsight I can say that I prefer something like Perforce if someone can manage it for me, or it's a set-and-forget type situation; I don't personally have a lot of use for the distributed part of DVCS.
Currently I use Fossil for most projects, but it's not a compelling choice (just like git) for when you have binary stuff. You've got `fossil uv` for unversioned files, but I think I would rather just sidestep the entire problem with a better versioning model than what we've settled on for text files.
> Honestly, when our backend team merged into one that was using Perforce for the backend learning how to use Perforce wasn't realistically even a blip on the radar of what to get used to.
I think a lot of what people are assuming here is that because git has such a steep learning curve, P4 does too. You can literally ignore all of the concepts that P4 has and still muddle your way into getting things updated.
All I can say is that wasn't my experience with P4 in 2015.