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I sometimes feel like the technology world is similar to the fashion industry - this year CVS is, then it's suddenly SVN, and when I make the switch, everyone i

• MicahWedemeyer 18y ago
  As a recent switcher to git, I like your fashion analogy. It's like I'm wearing what others call the latest fashion, but it sure looks the same to me. All the colors are different, but I end up wearing it the exact same way.
• davidw 18y ago
  I just started playing with git, and yeah, it's definitely better in a few ways, but it didn't jump up and start writing code for me, so your approach is a sensible one. My guess is that companies are not made or broken on the differences between vc systems - as long as you have a decent one, you're ok.
• mechanical_fish 18y ago
  As others have mentioned already in this thread, the git-svn bridge works very well. You can adopt git and get a bunch of its features (local repository mirrors and multiple local branches) while still working atop your SVN repository. You give up some things (you can't really do cross-repository merges with git-svn -- when you want to communicate with your peers you have to do it via the SVN repo) but it is still great. It's not worth waiting another five years for the extra features. ;) I've found that the CVS-to-git workflow is a bit more annoying. You can import CVS repos into git, but you can't really push anything back without using patches.