The Version Control Wars Are Back—and This Time AI Is the Battleground

Version Control Second Coming

Twenty years after Git upended version control, a new wave of startups is challenging GitHub's dominance. Driving it: AI agents committing code at unprecedented rates, and a hunger for alternatives. The author, who co-founded Plastic SCM and now works on Origin, surveys the field—Entire, Pierre, GitButler, East River, Diversion—and explains why the next few years will reshape how software is built.