This! My biggest problem with svn was I could never wrap my head around the organization/setup. There were these three directories I was told I needed, but it was never clear where they were suppose to be, or really why I needed them. And then there was this other directory that actually had the repository, but was never suppose to be touched, and it just didn't make any sense. I always had the feeling I set things up wrong, and it felt so clunky. Setting up repositories with git and using them was so much easier for me to understand. Although, maybe part of that was due to struggling with svn for so long first.
cheers, Maria On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 1:26 AM, Inigo Aldazabal Mensa < [email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 19:10:58 -0500 > Greg Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 2016-03-10 6:55 PM, Inigo Aldazabal Mensa wrote: > > > There's nothing like "mkdir /my/project; cd /my/project; git init" > > > in > SVN; this is like magic from a SVN point of view. It's version > > > control > for free! I used to this a lot: ~: svnadmin create > > > $HOME/repos/inigo ~: svn checkout file://$HOME/repos/inigo > > > $HOME/inigo Checked out revision 0. > > and then 'cd ~/inigo' and start work... > > Yes, but the mental burden is considerably higher as you have to > *create* the repo first, and checkout it second, and ... where > exactly to checkout? why there? how is this new $HOME/inigo folder > created and what does it mean? etc., > > This compared against touching a folder you are using/going to use with > your wand and having it under version control. You can then later on > grow concepts like repos etc., but the entry barrier is extremely low. > > I like to see distributed version control as version control for the > masses "for free"; always ready, only one git init away from you. > > Cheers, > > Inigo > > > Cheers, > > Greg > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >
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