Hi Andrew, As long as your colleagues are only interested in using the same features as are available with SVN, the only advantage to using Git is performance IMHO. And this you only really start noticing with either large code-bases, or very old ones (lots of commits).
If SVN performance is not annoying, and your team has no problems merging branches and stuff like that, by all means let them stick to using SVN (and use git-svn for yourself). In the first company I tried to introduce Git<http://blog.tfnico.com/2010/06/distributed-source-control-management.html>, I failed at first, even though lousy SVN performance was perhaps the biggest technical annoyance people had in their daily work. I couldn't convince the team to switch all in one go, so I set up a git-svn mirror<http://www.tfnico.com/presentations/git-and-subversion>, to allow people to try out git on the code base, while still being backwards-compatible with SVN. This allowed people to try out git on the real code base while still using SVN, thereby avoiding the dangerous "cold turkey" approach. I started with the colleague I shared office with, as I could show him little git tips every few hours, and help him out when he got into trouble. Together we then managed to convert a couple of the early adapters (the team members who are always interested in fancy new stuff). The plan was to gradually win the whole team over, and then make a complete switch when everyone (or most) felt ready for it, but around then I switched jobs. I reckon I spent about 6-8 months converting just a small handful of colleagues, so I appreciate this being hard work! In my next job I spent just a few months getting the whole team over on git. Much smaller team, and much more segmented code-base (easier to convert bit-by-bit to git repositories), were some of the reasons it was so much easier this time around. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/git-users/-/8t5_Z8Xi4QsJ. To post to this group, send email to git-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
