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I use SVN on a 2 person academic project. It works great, I've never had any problems or complaints. Is there some compelling reason to switch to a distributed
by iskander 17y ago
I use SVN on a 2 person academic project. It works great, I've never had any problems or complaints. Is there some compelling reason to switch to a distributed VCS?
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoSheer speed.
- iskander 17y agoPerhaps my project is too small to encounter performance issues (only have ~15k lines of code), but SVN has always been perfectly snappy.
- d0m 17y agoI like running with only one leg; it works well. But I'm too stubborn to try with 2, even if professional athletes keep telling me it is better for many reasons. IE6 works well for me by the way. And I play piano without black keys, it works well for me. Oh, and you know what, I always study the night before my exam, it works well for me.
- iskander 17y agoBut what exactly is better?
- xilun666 17y agoBranching At the beginning you're are not even conscious that you can, but once you've discovered the power it gives you, you will branch twice a day just because you can (and more if you need). The two stage commit approach of git is interesting but not fundamental IMHO. "stash" is really cool. The kind of features git gives me makes me use it even when I code alone.
- e40 17y agoI skipped over SVN on my way to Git from CVS, but I've heard the handling of branches in SVN isn't much better than CVS, and there it is absolutely horrible. So, if you don't use branches it is understandable why you are happy with SVN. If you want branches, you'll need Git something like it (HG).
- neilc 17y agoBranches work just fine in SVN. Merging isn't great, but it is much better with merge tracking in recent versions of SVN.
- iskander 17y agoYep, we don't use branches. Maybe that's the reason everyone seems to have such (otherwise mystifyingly) negative opinions of SVN.
- rbonvall 17y agoFor me it was the other way around. Using git made me want to use branches.