Bye Bye SVN, Hello Git

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Post by chrisferry » Mon, Apr 16, 2012, 1:56 PM UTC

Bye Bye SVN, Hello Git
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Re: Bye Bye SVN, Hello Git

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Post by rjzzleep » Mon, Apr 16, 2012, 2:09 PM UTC

i think this is the place to remind of torvalds git talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8

Re: Bye Bye SVN, Hello Git

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Post by compay » Mon, Apr 16, 2012, 2:52 PM UTC

It's 2012, not 2008. Why is the #2 story right now about a company that switched from SVN to Git?

Re: Bye Bye SVN, Hello Git

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Post by recursive » Mon, Apr 16, 2012, 2:56 PM UTC

compay wrote: post #3

It's 2012, not 2008. Why is the #2 story right now about a company that switched from SVN to Git?

I think there are a lot of people that use subversion.

Re: Bye Bye SVN, Hello Git

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Post by leetrout » Mon, Apr 16, 2012, 2:57 PM UTC

Is there a big performance boost for squashing when rebasing? Is it just housekeeping?

I like what Paul Stadig had to say on the topic http://paul.stadig.name/2010/12/thou-shalt-not-lie-git-rebas...

Re: Bye Bye SVN, Hello Git

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Post by astrodust » Mon, Apr 16, 2012, 2:58 PM UTC

compay wrote: post #3

It's 2012, not 2008. Why is the #2 story right now about a company that switched from SVN to Git?

I was wondering if there was something new in here. Instead it's a tale of a company that's been living under a rock for the last four years.

Re: Bye Bye SVN, Hello Git

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Post by compay » Mon, Apr 16, 2012, 3:02 PM UTC

recursive wrote: post #4

compay wrote: post #3

It's 2012, not 2008. Why is the #2 story right now about a company that switched from SVN to Git?

I think there are a lot of people that use subversion.

At the risk of sounding like an elitist hipster hacker, the core audience of this site comes here looking to read articles about innovation, not staid, conservative companies slowly transitioning to established and proven technologies.

Re: Bye Bye SVN, Hello Git

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Post by noarchy » Mon, Apr 16, 2012, 3:08 PM UTC

recursive wrote: post #4

compay wrote: post #3

It's 2012, not 2008. Why is the #2 story right now about a company that switched from SVN to Git?

I think there are a lot of people that use subversion.

Indeed there are. I'm using it right now for a contract job. SVN is just the way things are done there. Before that, they were using TFS.

Re: Bye Bye SVN, Hello Git

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Post by rollypolly » Mon, Apr 16, 2012, 3:09 PM UTC

compay wrote: post #3

It's 2012, not 2008. Why is the #2 story right now about a company that switched from SVN to Git?

I'd be more interested to hear about companies who switched from Perforce to Git.

Perforce seems to be entrenched in more corporate environments.

Re: Bye Bye SVN, Hello Git

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Post by colomon » Mon, Apr 16, 2012, 3:09 PM UTC

recursive wrote: post #4

compay wrote: post #3

It's 2012, not 2008. Why is the #2 story right now about a company that switched from SVN to Git?

I think there are a lot of people that use subversion.

Sure, and I'm one of them. It's not exactly startling news in 2012 that a lot of people prefer the git/hg model. Hell, I prefer it myself! But I've got a complete svn ecosystem set up here, with 44 projects in a single svn repository, automatic offsite backups, and hundreds of checked-out directories spread across five (or more?) computers with five distinct operating systems. As far as I can see, the one-time costs of moving over completely dwarf the relatively small benefits I would gain from using a better branching model.