Subversion vs. Git: Myths and Facts(svnvsgit.com)
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Subversion vs. Git: Myths and Facts
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> Best practices to prevent tree conflicts during merge are simple: limit file and folder renames in branches, prefer to refactor code in the trunk.
Now every team member who was editing any of those files is boned in a way they probably can’t recover without expert help. git makes assumptions that work in practice, svn does not, and svnmerge.py conflict hell has cost hours of my life that I would dearly like to extract from the the creators of that pile of fun.
Now every team member who was editing any of those files is boned in a way they probably can’t recover without expert help. git makes assumptions that work in practice, svn does not, and svnmerge.py conflict hell has cost hours of my life that I would dearly like to extract from the the creators of that pile of fun.
I like how unbiased this article is
Yes. I definitely had the vibe of 'Get the Facts' from the Microsoft Linux-smearing campaign circa 2004 ([1]).
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Linux#Criticism_b...
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Linux#Criticism_b...
Follow link to FreeBSD site. Last log entry, from 6 weeks ago: "Mark the repository as being converted to Git. is the last Subversion comm..."
Follow link to the LLVM repo - dead. That's because LLVM transitioned to GitHub last year.
> "About 47% of other open source projects use Subversion too (while only 38% are on Git)."
Follow link. Now 72% git, 23% subversion, ... and 1% are like me in using Mercurial. :( But where are the 23%? I haven't come across them.
> "For example, all the projects of the Apache Software Foundation are stored in a single Subversion repository"
Except for those that use git - https://git.apache.org/ .
> "Additional information: Mercurial vs Git: Why Mercurial?"
Links to a 2012 blog post at atlassian.com. Atlassian, notably, dropped Mercurial support a couple of year ago, causing me to find other hosting for my repos.