Git. It's extremely fast and featureful and I don't care about interoperability. Much faster than SVN or anyone else. Linus writes great software.
It's only a little bit faster than mercurial, and the size of the repository is larger.
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#32Using Git, Mercurial, and SVN ... for diff projects
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#33Can anyone with experience with both SVN and Git comment on the pros/cons of branching and merging (this is something I do often in Perforce). Which would you use based on this one issue?
svn's complete lack of merge tracking is simply too painful to use. git will make you much happier.
svn as of 1.5.0 does support merge tracking. I must admit that when first looking into svn I was very surprised to find that it did not originally support it.
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#34Using bzr. A few months ago when evaluating bzr, git, and mercurial, the features were similar between all three, but bazaar won in the ease of use category.
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#35Why do these polls get repeated so regularly? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=323041
Also, that poll had much fewer choices.
For that matter, this one doesn't have plain old RCS, which is what I use.
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#36Team Foundation Server.
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#37i'd like to know why people are using what they are. did you pick git because you just recently started using version control or was there really something you needed in it that made you switch? i've been using cvs for about 10 years now and have no reason to switch to anything else. it does what i need without any extra fluff, all my projects are in cvs, and the majority of the projects i contribute to use cvs.
I use a combination of git and Subversion. SVN for the main repo that is shared between developers (with many developers working at once the lack of atomic commits really sucks), and git as my own offline versioning system. The code that I write tends to go through several iterations, and I'm loathe to commit anything to SVN until things work well enough to please me. Bad code should never make it into your prod repo, but I'm not a fan of rewriting/deleting mass chunks of code without SCM to back me up.
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#38i'd like to know why people are using what they are. did you pick git because you just recently started using version control or was there really something you needed in it that made you switch? i've been using cvs for about 10 years now and have no reason to switch to anything else. it does what i need without any extra fluff, all my projects are in cvs, and the majority of the projects i contribute to use cvs.
I use a combination of git and Subversion. SVN for the main repo that is shared between developers (with many developers working at once the lack of atomic commits really sucks), and git as my own offline versioning system. The code that I write tends to go through several iterations, and I'm loathe to commit anything to SVN until things work well enough to please me. Bad code should never make it into your prod repo…
Ok, this convinced me to at least give git a try. I made the move to SVN from CVS years ago to be able to rename / move stuff in the repo, but the offline version control would keep me from keeping a bunch of updates in a branch uncommitted while I do a major push.
My current offline version control system has been leaving all the files open in TextMate to take advantage of undo/redo. (Horrible I know).
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#39i'd like to know why people are using what they are. did you pick git because you just recently started using version control or was there really something you needed in it that made you switch? i've been using cvs for about 10 years now and have no reason to switch to anything else. it does what i need without any extra fluff, all my projects are in cvs, and the majority of the projects i contribute to use cvs.
Using bzr: our development is done in Python, so it's handy to be able to a) modify things if we need to and b) bundle bzr with our company's python install. It was the first distributed VCS I have used. I highly suggest it for personal or small projects, as it supports "dumb storage" and thus you can host a repo anywhere you have ftp or sftp access. It is also handy for working around annoying firewall restrictions…
Mercurial's also in Python. And I think in most benchmarks it comes out ahead of Bazaar. Might be worth a look.
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#40Git itself is growing on me.
GitHub is just awesome, especially for open source projects. (of course I say this just as GitHub goes down for the first extended period of time since I started using it)
"git bisect run" is incredibly cool for tracking down when a bug was introduced: http://tlrobinson.net/blog/?p=51