git import (again ;-))

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

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Hendrik Baecker wrote:
> Andreas Ericsson schrieb:
>> How do you, the developer community, feel about such things?
> git  [x]
> SVN [ ]
> CVS [ ]
> 
> Why?
> Git is fast, open for contributions in a contributors seperate
> namespace, if you allow them to commit.
> Those contributor-branches are easy to test and more easier to merge.
> If you don't like particular commits of them, just cherry-pick the
> best out of it.
> You are able to easily test a idea in a seperate branch without
> annoying the main developer branch _AND_ you are able to merge back
> within a few minutes.
> 
> There is only one contra git:
> To the most of the users, who never dealed with git, it's so high magic.
> It is really something special, if you came from the centralised (the
> dark) side of SCM to a distribued one.

The first time I used CVS it was high magic for me too, and while
there's likely more features in git that can be learned and exploited, I
believe the basic skills required to start hacking with it are pretty
much the same as CVS. On the plus side you don't have to ask for commit
access.

As more projects move to distributed SCMs new users will naturally learn
them; I don't think that's an issue. The hard thing if for developers
used to centralized SCMs to get around learning a new tool that at first
glance do the exact same thing.

That's the feeling I had when I first heard about git, yet now I use it
I wouldn't go back to CVS or SVN. It truly makes development and
collaboration easier and faster. IMHO it's really worth the time
required to learn it.

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Thomas
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