Git has a number of advantages over SVN, personally I'd say Git is to SVN as SVN is to CVS.
One of the main things is, it was built from the ground up for is non-linear development. It is insanely easy and fast to create a branch, work with it, and then merge it back to trunk (or another branch, of course), or discard the changes. It also makes it very easy to work locally and still gain all the benefits of version control, and only when you are ready you can push all (or part) of your work to the remote repository to make it available for others. I can't count the number of times I (and numerous others over time) are working in an SVN trunk, and are afraid to commit because the changes aren't finished, but are afraid to branch because branching and merging in SVN is so counterintuitive. So they don't check in for days, while they work to get things working and in order. This is extremely common. Git puts an end to all of that. I'd recommend trying it out and looking at the free book http://progit.org/book/. In some ways Git is similar to SVN but in others it is different, and it takes a bit of time to get used to the idea that you have a clone of the entire repository stored locally, the idea of local commits vs. remote push, and some of the new terminology. But since I've been using Git, it's been nothing but a pleasure to work with. On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 5:21 PM, David McGuigan <[email protected]>wrote: > > I'd also be interested to know of this paradise. > > > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Andrew Scott <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > Not having used Git how is it paradise? > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Brian Kotek [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Friday, 7 May 2010 6:08 AM > > To: cf-talk > > Subject: Re: How are other developers handling big SVN repositories? > > > > > > Probably won't help right now, but for future reference, Git's branching > > and > > merging is like paradise compared to SVN. Might be worth thinking about > > trying on a future project. > > > > Brian > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333450 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
