Comments on: Why git rules!

By: s0nspark

s0nspark — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:16:04 +0000

The biggest advantage I have found while using a distributed SCM (I use bazaar) is that I do not need net access to work… I am able to commit, branch,, diff, revert using my local branch and then push my patches to a “master” branch when I am done and have connectivity.

In fact I moved to this working model (first using darcs and then bazaar) when my net connection went down for a couple of days and it severely impacted my ability to get stuff done.

By: Anders

Anders — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:02:20 +0000

Subversion might have some of these features in the future. Read this interesting thread:

http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=128111

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By: Diego

Diego — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:27:45 +0000

Git branches are just wonderful. SVN has got lot of attention because it was the one decent CVS replacement, but as linus said, SVN objective of writing a “cvs replacement that doesn’t suck” is not interesting, because there’s no way of doing CVS right.

By: self

self — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:12:28 +0000

Read this: http://keithp.com/blog/Repository_Formats_Matter.html

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:55:28 +0000

The other huge thing about SVN was higlited by Aaron’s post about his trip to India. No direct access to the net means, no “saving the work” type of commits from internet-less contributors. Rather a painfull way to work.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:52:48 +0000

The problem with branches is the same problem that requires trust.

All branches go in the same central place, and require centralized User/Pass management.

With Git or Bzr, you can have infinite number uf people lifing under a repository that has 5-10 direct contributors.

By: ervin

ervin — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:28:44 +0000

Everything you described is actually possible with subversion thanks to branches…

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:14:45 +0000

The thing that confuses me is I don’t see the advantage of distributed VCS over branches. I guess I’m missing something

By: Maurizio

Maurizio — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:01:47 +0000

You wrote a very insightful post, and i agree with what you say.

I did not compare git to other distributes VCS’s simply because I still know little about git and nothing about bazaar, mercurial, etc.

I was a bit unfair by not talking about other VCS’s, but I think that here the most important thing is getting used to the “distributed development model” idea, and those where just my 0.02€ in this direction.