Is Git the next Unix?

Short answer - no.

Long answer - no, but (a) Git is a powerful distributed source control system for developers and (b) Git's underlying object database is a powerful, fast database (faster than "cp-a" by some accounts). (It might be your next filesystem, though -- read the linked article.)

Git's object database sacrifices some space for ease of manipulation, as each object is a file referred to by its SHA-1 hash. These objects are in a 2-level store, so an object A4F272058... w…

This one is easy to miss if you only develop in Perl part-time. If you have to upgrade a CORE module (usually because another module needs that upgraded CORE module), then you need to add UNINST=1 to your make(1) invocation.

There are few things more aggravating than to "make install" several times with different tweaks only to always end up with the same, out-of-date module stubbornly still installed. All for the lack of an UNINST=1.