On Friday, June 13, 2014 2:24:15 AM UTC+2, charlesmanning wrote: > > > There is an argument whether Git is actually easier to learn than SVN for >> people who have never used version control systems before. After all, Git >> has more in common with the kind of version control system you would invent >> by yourself if there were none available [1]. >> >> [1] http://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.html >> > > By that argument, git should have emerged as the first version control > system. Instead we got rcs! >
Not necessarily. I think a lot of people worked with zipped up copies/snapshots of their projects before they started using rcs, or anything else. > SVN is surely simpler to learn - there are less concepts: just a client > checkout and a repository. No staging and no "real" branching. > > Git though is not that much harder to learn. It has far more flexibility > than svn. For that reason it is worth the extra effort. > I blogged some thoughts on this a long while ago: http://blog.tfnico.com/2011/11/some-thoughts-on-git-vs-complexity.html So, as an experienced SVN user, I certainly see your side of things. But I still do wonder if, for the complete beginner, Git is actually easier to get started with. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
