Versioning system - Subversion Vs. Git

[Thomas Gail Haws]

Keith,

You know how much of an expert I am, but I have put some serious mind share
into groking Git in the past month, and I can speak to it a bit.  (My
previous experience was with CVS.)

I personally wouldn't bother with anything but Git if I had the choice.  I
would install it, then play a bit with a little one file project.  I don't
know how other Software Control Systems work behind the scenes, but Git does
this:

1.  Your actual project files and folders are called a repository.  You
could conceivably have more than one repository on a user account, but
that's not the main idea.  The main big idea is that each user account has
one project repository.  Git puts itself into the .git folder in that
repository's root.

2.  Git keeps snapshot track of every point of status of every branch of
that repository.  When you check out (switch to) a branch, Git makes sure
you have added (staged) and committed all your edits from the branch you are
in first, then actually edits all the files in your repository to bring them
to the state of the branch you are switching to.  It's quite amazing to me,
to tell the truth.

I suggest you watch Linus Torvalds at Google talking about Git before you
make a decision or even try to use Git.  Another good thing to do is Google
"Git work flow"

Tom


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On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Eric Cope <eric.cope at gmail.com> wrote:

> I like the idea of local repos so I can check in files as I go, then push
> to the server when I am comfortable with my changes. There is no way I
> could've made the change from SVN to Git without Syntevo's software. Its not
> free for commercial use, but its well worth the $75.
>
> Services like Github are nice as well. (There are SVN equivelant, but I
> don't know them specifically).
>
> Eric
>
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:29 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking at version systems for two different projects each on their
>> own server.  I used Subversion about 3 years ago for just a few week so I
>> have little recall of subversion.
>>
>> I was doing some research and it seems Git is emerging.  That makes me
>> believe that I should look at Git and install/learn/use it.  Of course
>> before I venture down this path, I always like to ask the experts.
>>
>> Thank you for your insight on Subversion Vs. Git.
>>
>>
>> ------------------------
>> Keith Smith
>>
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