Re: Git vs. Subversion. Which one?

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On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 06:48 -0400, Thomas Thurman wrote:
> 2008/9/30 Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 05:46 -0400, Thomas Thurman wrote:
> >> 2008/9/30 Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> >> > * CVS (and RCS) archives can be converted/exported to almost all other
> >> > VCS if required.
> >>
> >> Are CVS and RCS archives equivalent?
> > IIRC, widely. However I have to admit, my last encounter with RCS dates
> > back to more than a decade, so ... ;)
> 
> Which is why I was wondering why you were recommending it over CVS, you see.
> 
> >> I think you misunderstand bzr. Bzr is a generic distributed VCS,
> >> roughly equivalent to git.
> >
> > Well, my point is "lack of a userbase", "availability of clients on
> > different platforms", "integration in IDEs", "VCS providers offering it"
> > So far, I have never tripped over a major project which is actively
> > using bzr nor have I ever met a user using it :)
> 
> You might not be a fan of MySQL or Ubuntu, but I don't really see how
> they qualify as not being major.
OK, I wasn't aware about them using bzr ;)

OTOH, GCC is using SVN, openSUSE seems to be using SVN, Debian seems to
be using Git.

> As for "availability of clients on different platforms": one
> particular case I've run into was a company I worked at recently where
> they decided to go for bzr over git.
So far, git hasn't convinced me, either ;)

>   When I started I asked what
> their rationale had been, and they told me it was because some of
> their developers ran *nix and some ran Windows.  They found at the
> time that bzr had better cross-platform support (possibly because of
> being written in an interpreted language).  Perhaps CVS is even more
> widely ported, though, merely by virtue of being older.
CVS support can be found in almost all IDEs and also is available for
most OSes.

> > Or differently: Don't underestimate the "familiarity factor" when
> > launching a new archive.

> Very true.  This is occasionally a very good reason to stick with svn
> (or even CVS, although svn is practically a drop-in replacement for
> CVS and solves many of its infelicities).
Well, at least to me, GCC having switched to SVN (some years back) had
caused massive drawbacks on my work on GCC. So I would not agree to "SVN
being a drop-in replacement for CVS". It has very similar features, but
the CLI is entirely different.

Ralf



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