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Re: Bye Bye SVN, Hello Git

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Post by crosvenir » Mon, Apr 16, 2012, 6:38 PM UTC

RobAtticus wrote: post #55

crosvenir wrote: post #32

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I'm one of them as well. I'd also love to use git. The issue I have we it is that I feel like the "port" to Windows was more of a crowbar sort of operation rather than a well thought out plan to make a program cross-platform compatible. Install TortoiseSVN. Done. Install TortoiseHg. Oh it needs something else. What's it called? Ok. I need msysGit. I'll get that. Ok, they're all in beta? Whatever I'll just get one. Wh…

I assume you meant TortoiseGit? Otherwise, I think I spot the problem. (Just pointing out because TortoiseHg actually is fairly painless to install if you want to use Mercurial on Windows, and the typo might confuse some)

Wow. Yeah. TortoiseGit. Wherever my brain is I hope it's happy and it writes soon. Thanks!

Re: Bye Bye SVN, Hello Git

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Post by crosvenir » Mon, Apr 16, 2012, 7:11 PM UTC

jurre wrote: post #53

crosvenir wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm one of them as well. I'd also love to use git. The issue I have we it is that I feel like the "port" to Windows was more of a crowbar sort of operation rather than a well thought out plan to make a program cross-platform compatible. Install TortoiseSVN. Done. Install TortoiseHg. Oh it needs something else. What's it called? Ok. I need msysGit. I'll get that. Ok, they're all in beta? Whatever I'll just get one. Wh…

The guide at github[0] is pretty easy to follow. I've done it on some of my fellow students' pc's a couple of times during a project, but most of them switched to Ubuntu after a couple of weeks. [0] http://help.github.com/win-set-up-git/

This is a really great setup tutorial that I haven't seen before. Thanks!

Re: Bye Bye SVN, Hello Git

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Post by compay » Mon, Apr 16, 2012, 9:45 PM UTC

lsd5you wrote: post #18

exit wrote: post #16

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what you're really complaining about is the voting mechanism around here. apparently there was enough interest to bump it to the front page.

Surely what he is really complaining about is the people who voted it up. We cannot blame everything on the system.

Yup, that's exactly what I meant. Thank you.

Re: Bye Bye SVN, Hello Git

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Post by weaksauce » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 7:43 AM UTC

peacemaker wrote: post #46

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 just started a new job, at it's the first time in a fairly long career I have had to use git instead of svn. The company I joined only recently switched to git too. Thing is, I understand svn. I get it, and I have used it for years and know, almost instinctively now, what will happen when I use the various commands. Git for me just feels overly confusing. I suppose it's just because I'm used to "the old way" but ju…

There are so many articles because there are a lot of people out there that really like git. It's like cutting meat with a spoon and then you are given a knife. Everyone is complaining about how you can cut yourself or how two sides of the knife but only one is sharp is confusing but once you know how to use it it is a game changer with respect to actually cutting meat. There are a lot of people passionate about cutting meat.

It's not really that hard to learn btw. There are some esoteric things that can be tricky but the Svn workflow can be learned in a day or two tops.