Question for the hackers

[prog]

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.

Comments

[temvald.livejournal.com]

I've been using Mercurial with Dreamwidth, and my impression is that Git is a lot like it. It does have some neat features--it's nice to be able to, say, create a patch that lets me run in 32-bit on my laptop, and then just do a 'remove local patches; update; reapply local patches'. But I'm not sure that there would be much of a win in using it for a corporate project, where there needs to be a single canonical codebase that everyone uses.

...I don't know how helpful that is.

[ex-colorwhe.livejournal.com]

i like cheese.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Finally, an answer that makes sense.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it sounds like sweet sauce for hackers, and I may look at it for my next from-scratch project. But it sounds like my clients won't be missing anything if I continue to recommend Subversion's use for their own stuff.