Question for the hackers
Feb. 5th, 2009 07:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I've been using Subversion since 2005 or so, and do not knowingly find it lacking in any particular way.
Should I care about Git? All I know about Git so far is that "everyone" is suddenly using it.
Should I care about Git? All I know about Git so far is that "everyone" is suddenly using it.
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Date: 2009-02-06 02:56 am (UTC)I'll be interested to hear what you find.
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Date: 2009-02-06 02:56 am (UTC)...I don't know how helpful that is.
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Date: 2009-02-06 02:12 pm (UTC)I also like that it's easy, even while "offline", to do frequent commits on small improvements, and then step back and organize the commits into logical groups for sending to some canonical source.
Inertia is nice. People keep making nice new tools for git.
Github is pretty nice, as is git.or.cz.
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Date: 2009-02-06 02:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-06 06:00 pm (UTC)Not leaving .svn turds everywhere would be awfully nice. I spend a lot of time grepping the source tree, and it's like "grep -r . | grep -v svn". (Or figuring out how to use "find", which is always just a little too painful.)
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Date: 2009-02-06 06:34 pm (UTC)Interface is still crap, though. Maybe Mercurial is better?
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Date: 2009-02-06 07:26 pm (UTC)Currently I'm using git to version my local changes for work, rather than pushing them out to the bastard SVN/CVS combined ugliness that we use. It's been really handy for me to snapshot a current state, go off and work on my changes, then bring in the latest and greatest from the rest of the world when I need to test. Not that this isn't doable with other VCSes, but it's been pretty easy with git.
Also, I'm an odd nut and just like playing with VCSes. So take my opinions with a grain of salt. ;)