Versioning system - Subversion Vs. Git

[Thomas Gail Haws]

That's what you would think.  And that's what Git does (in a devious,
compact, efficient way that's better than saving a version of the entire
file).  Which may help explain why it's so well received.
Tom
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On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:24 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> I guess I need to dig deeper.  I thought that was the core of what a
> versioning system does -  saves each version at commit so you will have a
> different file each time you "save".
>
> ------------------------
> Keith Smith
>
> --- On *Tue, 12/7/10, Judd Pickell <pickell at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Judd Pickell <pickell at gmail.com>
>
> Subject: Re: Versioning system - Subversion Vs. Git
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Date: Tuesday, December 7, 2010, 1:54 PM
>
>
> I haven't seen anything in your posts that would indicate that GIT
> would be better than SVN for your needs, with the exception of the
> following:
>
> >
> > Basically all I need is a way to track updates and keep someone from over
> writing someone else's changes.
> >
>
> Obviously there is no absolutely certain way to prevent someone from
> overwriting another person's changes. However with GIT you would get a
> more comprehensive way to compare and evaluate changes to figure out
> how to solve the issue when such things happen. I prefer SVN myself,
> but only more for familiarity than any other reason.
>
> Although for my current employment I Perforce, which is actually okay.
> I hated it at first, felt too much like Source Safe for my liking, but
> having working on an entire project from beginning to end only using
> Perforce I can say I actually kind of enjoy it. It's branching and
> versioning work pretty well and I am rarely stuck on bad merge issues.
>
> Sincerely,
> Judd Pickell
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