It’s time to stop using Subversion
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It’s time to stop using Subversion
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Re: It’s time to stop using Subversion
#2Very old news.
Re: It’s time to stop using Subversion
#3I'm kinda annoyed that every once in a while, somebody has to come along dissing svn, prophesying its inevitable demise and glorifying git. Yes, git is "better" than svn, I agree. I like the message in general, but I don't like the tone of it.
I still use svn. For personal project, I have moved to hg. I use git occasionally. They all have its merits, and svn certainly didn't deserve "you should probably stop using it".
Re: It’s time to stop using Subversion
#4Very old news.
Indeed. When I clicked the article link, I expected to find something from ~2007.
Re: It’s time to stop using Subversion
#5Very old news.
And yet some of us are stuck using CVS.
Re: It’s time to stop using Subversion
#6Having just spent the last month converting our operation to Git here at work, I can tell you the main force in keeping Subversion around are Windows users who are used to TortoiseSVN. There still is no viable Git UI for Windows (or any other OS, really -- but Windows is especially immature) and the people who make decisions a) use Windows and b) "don't have time" to learn git on the command line.
Re: It’s time to stop using Subversion
#7How about, no? The day you realize the tools you use are not the most important part of your function is the day you finally understand what it is you do. Yes, tools can make things easier, run more smoothly, or make you happy but... Can you do the same, if not better, job with alternate, less efficient tools? Yes. Tool elitism is no better than language elitism.
Now, I'll be in the corner using notepad and copying my file every time I make a major change. ;)
Re: It’s time to stop using Subversion
#8Having just spent the last month converting our operation to Git here at work, I can tell you the main force in keeping Subversion around are Windows users who are used to TortoiseSVN. There still is no viable Git UI for Windows (or any other OS, really -- but Windows is especially immature) and the people who make decisions a) use Windows and b) "don't have time" to learn git on the command line.
That's exactly why we had to go with Mercurial instead of git. Their Windows integration is approaching SVN. Plus we were already using FogBugz. So, Kiln was a plus.
Re: It’s time to stop using Subversion
#9Having just spent the last month converting our operation to Git here at work, I can tell you the main force in keeping Subversion around are Windows users who are used to TortoiseSVN. There still is no viable Git UI for Windows (or any other OS, really -- but Windows is especially immature) and the people who make decisions a) use Windows and b) "don't have time" to learn git on the command line.
The Jetbrains IDEs actually have excellent Git integration if that suits your purposes, which basically means Java (as many PHP, Python and Ruby programmers are married to simple text editors, emacs, vi, etc).
Now I like git but I can totally see why people don't use it (or in fact any DVCS). The central repository model is easily understood and implemented. The idea that there is no central "source of truth" is confusing--possibly even alarming--to an outsider.
Windows support problems for Git go beyond having no TortoiseSVN equivalent though. When I was setting this up I at first tried to get Git over SSH working with PuTTY and it a hair-pulling out experience. I eventually abandoned that effort in favour of Cygwin, which just worked.
Re: It’s time to stop using Subversion
#10Why do some devs not like CLIs? GUIs are nice sometimes but I definitely don't pick my tools based on which has the nicest.
Also, it's not like SVN is suddenly bad or anything. I prefer GIT but I'm not tripping all over myself to switch over all of my existing projects.