Versioning system - Subversion Vs. Git

[Thomas Gail Haws]

Linus Torvalds, the author of Git, doesn't speak ill of Hg and Bazaar, from
what I know.  (He can't find words strong enough to dis CVS and SVN).
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receive untold peace and happiness." - Dr. Robert Muller


On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Carl Parrish <cparrish at carlparrish.com>wrote:

> I haven't read the entire thread yet but I kept seeing everyone loving Git.
> I wanted to say check out hg and bzr as well as git. In my opinion bzr has
> all the advantages you'd get in git. HG (Mecurial - has become much popular
> of late). I wouldn't use subversion for any new projects today.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 3:26 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks!  That pretty much makes the decision for us.
>>
>> ------------------------
>> Keith Smith
>>
>> --- On *Tue, 12/14/10, Ariel Gold <arielqgold at gmail.com>* wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Ariel Gold <arielqgold 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 14, 2010, 11:57 AM
>>
>>
>> > We also have someone who wants to put all of our Drupal stuff into a
>> versioning system so it would be easy to tell if something has changed on
>> the server.  I know to little to know if this is the way to go or if this is
>> even possible.
>>
>> from drupal maintainers-news:
>>
>> -------- CVS IS BEING REPLACED WITH GIT
>> ------------------------------
>> --------
>>
>> Drupal.org is moving off of CVS for project version control! The Drupal
>> Association sponsored the project to help move drupal.org to a more
>> modern
>> system enabling the community to do even smoother collaboration. Your new
>> helper will be git (originally written to manage the Linux kernel code).
>> The
>> team is hard at work to accomplish the migration before Drupalcon Chicago.
>> Mid-Februrary is the tentative launch date.
>>
>> What does moving to git mean for Drupal.org? Read more at
>> http://groups.drupal.org/node/106224
>>
>> We made the existing source of drupal.org projects available under
>> git.drupal.org in a ready-only mode, so you can use it to roll patches or
>> just check out code already.
>>
>> It's very important to understand that the migration will not be a gradual
>> process - when the flip is switched, CVS will become instantly read-only,
>> and
>> git will replace it entirely. So the sooner you familiarize yourself with
>> git, the better! Get books for the holidays, read some great tutorials.
>> Here
>> are some of our tips:
>>
>>  * http://gitref.org/
>>  * http://gitready.com/
>>  * http://book.git-scm.com/
>>  * http://www.archive.org/details/GitFundamentals
>>  * http://peepcode.com/products/git
>>  * http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-org-git-migration-team
>>
>>
>>
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