They certainly both have their own advantages. (accidentally went off list, bringing it back on list)
Cheers, James On 2012-09-04, at 11:03 AM, Mark J. Norton wrote: > Well, obviously you are well on the way to using GIT anyways. It seems to be > an unavoidable industry trend at this point. I like SVN because the work > flow is much simpler. Granted collisions need merging work, but then, that's > true for GIT, too. I just thought I'd throw my $0.02 (Canadian, of course) > in. > > - Mark > > On 9/4/2012 10:15 AM, James W. Yoon wrote: >> Thanks for your thoughts, Mark! >> >> I should've been more clear about the nature of our files. Almost all our >> design files are binary (e.g., Illustrator, Photoshop, OmniGraffle files). >> Many of our design directories look like this: >> https://source.fluidproject.org/svn/design/floe/user-interface-options >> >> While svn and git are good solutions for text-based code repositories, it's >> not clear to me that their use extends comfortably to repositories that are >> primarily made up of binary files. >> >> Cheers, >> James >> >> On 2012-09-04, at 9:58 AM, Mark J. Norton wrote: >> >>> On 9/4/2012 9:40 AM, James W. Yoon wrote: >>> >>> Speaking as a fan of SVN over GIT: >>> >>>> - difficult for two or more designers to work on the same file at the same >>>> time >>> The idea is to control who is actively working on a file. While some might >>> consider that a difficulty, other would consider it part of the work flow. >>> >>>> - difficult to use if you don't have an svn client >>> To be fair, you neet a GIT client to clone work spaces, etc. >>> >>>> - difficult to link to from the wiki, emails, etc. (direct links spew out >>>> the file as text) >>> I would think that a link to a file in svn WOULD show the file as text. >>> >>> - Mark Norton >>> >>> _______________________________________________________ >>> fluid-work mailing list - [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, >>> see http://lists.idrc.ocad.ca/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work >> >> > _______________________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://lists.idrc.ocad.ca/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
