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> It's quite easy to teach a junior dev how to use SVN. Git takes much longer to master. This is pretty much it, ease of use. No one really knows git (beyond
by ProAm 4y ago
> It's quite easy to teach a junior dev how to use SVN. Git takes much longer to master.
This is pretty much it, ease of use. No one really knows git (beyond 5 commands). Everyone knows how to google git commands or talks to the wizard in the company that can fix the mess someone created. While in theory git is more powerful, in the art of getting things done easily SVN wins, simple, stupid and it works.
- tcoff91 4y agoI remember having all kinds of strange issues with subversion that were hard to resolve as a novice, not being able to commit for cryptic reasons, etc... Perforce is the only tool I've used that was actually pretty simple, and even then I'd say that dealing with merging streams was not nearly as easy as merging git branches.
- OkayPhysicist 4y agoHeh, funny story about Perforce. I bumped into one of their founders at a camp I go to, real down to earth dude. We had struck up a conversation over a few drinks, and the conversation drifted over to what we did. He asked "You know version control software?", and I replied "Like Git?" and he just responded with an exasperated sigh.