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The ease of use of Subversion is down to it being a centralized version control, which is pretty easy to understand. Switching to a distributed version control
by scrapheap 5y ago
The ease of use of Subversion is down to it being a centralized version control, which is pretty easy to understand. Switching to a distributed version control like Git takes quite a bit of effort (which I believe is worth it for more complex code bases being maintained by multiple people).
However, for a lot of business documents you want a single current version, with a history - Google Docs, Office 365 and similar give that to people in more user-friendly way than either Git or Subversion does, which is why they use it.
- COMMENT___ 5y agoI bet that many are using git with GitHub. And GitHub is a centralized storage. It seems awkward that I’m using a distributed VCS as a centralized one, but have to dive into technical details about DVCSes.
- JMS2021 5y agoIt's still decentralised. GitHub is just one remote. I can copy/move an entire repo with history and all to a new remote with 2 commands. This isn't possible with Subversion as the Subversion remote is the only single source/remote.