Indeed, that was then intent. The other points are serious, but then I thought "let's throw in a cartoon!"

I just wrote the referenced article last night. Normally, I takes months or years before something like this gets picked up and discussed on HN, and I have more time to refine the text. This one snuck up on me. Come back in a month or two and the article will probably be much improved. You are reading an initial draft.

On the other hand - it is a funny cartoon, don't you think? And it does kind of capture how most people use Git in a snarky kind of way, doesn't it? :-)

Absolutely, xkcd tends to reflect popular sentiment very well. On a different front, you made my day! One reply, and from the creator of SQLite, no less!