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I've just never found a reason to move on from SVN, to be honest. I use GIT when I am forced to, but for everything under my control, SVN works the best. I wa

I've just never found a reason to move on from SVN, to be honest. I use GIT when I am forced to, but for everything under my control, SVN works the best. I was unaware you could get rid of the staging area in GIT. I may need to look more into that.

lifthrasiir 9y ago
Is today's Subversion fast enough? My first impression of Mercurial moving from Subversion was that it's much faster compared to Subversion (I know, Subversion over HTTP at that time was nothing more than WebDAV :-); I'd migrated all my repositories at the day 1. I later noticed that it noticably slows down with larger repositories and that became a good reason to try Git out (only to be displeased with its interface, though), but even Mercurial was "fast" enough to displace Subversion for me.
- gmueckl 9y ago
  The speed of Subversion depends heavily on the hardware involved. On an underpowered server and/or over a WAN/internet connection it will be slow. On a fast server in a good LAN it is so fast that the speed difference to git or hg does not matter in practice: you will spend more time entering commands than waiting for the tool to process them.
stephenr 9y ago
Honestly I find Mercurial to be a good alternative. It's a lot more intuitive than Git, but with the same basic benefits (local, complete history, more portable, etc)
influx 9y ago
Git is over complicated for most people’s use cases, but I wouldn’t give up the fast branching and the rebasing features.
- BurningFrog 9y ago
  GIt is only as complicated as you make it. You don't have to use all the features :)
  - qznc 9y ago
    No. That would be like handing a professional compound bow [0] to a newbie instead of a simple one [1]. The note "only as complicated as you make it" would be quite sarcastic in this case. [0] https://outdoorsexperienceonline.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/pse-compound-bows.jpg https://outdoorsexperienceonline.files.wordpress.com/2013/07... [1] https://www.archery360.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/traditional-bows.jpg https://www.archery360.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/tradit...
- thomasahle 9y ago
  Apparently SVN has something like that now.
TorKlingberg 9y ago
I have do work with svn quite a lot. It's simpler that git in some ways, but things like merging branches just does not work at all.
- bluetwo 9y ago
  Yes, I've seen that pain, but my workflow rarely needs branch merging, so I've avoided that issue.
GordonS 9y ago
I do like SVN, and have used it for more than 10 years. It's simple, and I like simple. But... I do seem to get a lot of annoying conflicts that require resolution though. Git just works, though does having a bigger learning curve

lifthrasiir 9y ago

Is today's Subversion fast enough? My first impression of Mercurial moving from Subversion was that it's much faster compared to Subversion (I know, Subversion over HTTP at that time was nothing more than WebDAV :-); I'd migrated all my repositories at the day 1. I later noticed that it noticably slows down with larger repositories and that became a good reason to try Git out (only to be displeased with its interface, though), but even Mercurial was "fast" enough to displace Subversion for me.

gmueckl 9y ago
The speed of Subversion depends heavily on the hardware involved. On an underpowered server and/or over a WAN/internet connection it will be slow. On a fast server in a good LAN it is so fast that the speed difference to git or hg does not matter in practice: you will spend more time entering commands than waiting for the tool to process them.

stephenr 9y ago

Honestly I find Mercurial to be a good alternative. It's a lot more intuitive than Git, but with the same basic benefits (local, complete history, more portable, etc)

influx 9y ago

Git is over complicated for most people’s use cases, but I wouldn’t give up the fast branching and the rebasing features.

BurningFrog 9y ago
GIt is only as complicated as you make it. You don't have to use all the features :)
- qznc 9y ago
  No. That would be like handing a professional compound bow [0] to a newbie instead of a simple one [1]. The note "only as complicated as you make it" would be quite sarcastic in this case. [0] https://outdoorsexperienceonline.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/pse-compound-bows.jpg https://outdoorsexperienceonline.files.wordpress.com/2013/07... [1] https://www.archery360.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/traditional-bows.jpg https://www.archery360.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/tradit...
thomasahle 9y ago
Apparently SVN has something like that now.

TorKlingberg 9y ago

I have do work with svn quite a lot. It's simpler that git in some ways, but things like merging branches just does not work at all.

bluetwo 9y ago
Yes, I've seen that pain, but my workflow rarely needs branch merging, so I've avoided that issue.

GordonS 9y ago

I do like SVN, and have used it for more than 10 years. It's simple, and I like simple. But... I do seem to get a lot of annoying conflicts that require resolution though. Git just works, though does having a bigger learning curve