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The page "SVNvsGIT" has been deleted by JoanTouzet: https://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/SVNvsGIT?action=diff&rev1=5&rev2=6 Comment: The GIT migration is old now, and this page is nothing new. - == Main difference between SVN and GIT == - For understanding the setup of our GIT repositories better, we have to understand the difference in the mechanics of GIT compared to what we had available before at the ASF. - This matrix should also help to understand when a project might choose GIT or better shall stick to SVN. As an example: If you have a heavily modularized project where each module has it's own lifecycle, then better stick with SVN. In GIT this scenario would require to create an own GIT repository for each and every submodule, which would make releasing them as a bundle a real nightmare! - ||<tablewidth="903px" tableheight="203px"> ||SVN ||GIT || - ||Content ||SVN handles the content on a per-file basis. Each file is basically versioned on it's own and has it's own history. Moving a file with svn mv will preserve this history. Just copying the file will not! ||GIT treats all the files in the repository as a big union. All the commits basically form a tree of diffs which get applied to the initially empty project directory. There is no 'native history' on a file basis because of that. For producing a git-log or git-blame, GIT needs to walk through all the commit tree and check whether the given file is involved. Otoh git can not only automatically track rename-files, but also perfectly tracks if you move a method from one class to another! || - ||Revisions ||Each SVN server maintains a ticket counter which gets increased while assigning the revisionNumber in every commit. ||For each commit, GIT creates a unique sha1 of the diff of the commit combined with the sha1 of the 'parent' commit. This is cryptographically strong and results in having the same sha1 for a specific commit on each and every GIT repository. This effectively enables all the distributed nature of GIT. || - ||Security ||Handled by SVN itself. It's perfectly possible to have different directories and files in a SVN repo which have different security rules applied. ||GIT has no own security. It solely relies on the underlying transport/filesystem. It's not possible to have a 'hidden' branch which is only readable by certain people. Otoh one can create pre-commit hooks to only allow certain people to push to some specified branches.y || - ||Branches ||SVN creates an own directory per branch in ./branches/{branchname}/. The main content is always in ./trunk/ ||GIT treats branches more like the way CVS did. When checking out a branch, the directory remains the same, only the content will get 'switched'. Each branch is technically equal. It is NOT possible to only do 'partial' branches (on a partly tree of the project), instead a branch is ''__always__'' in the whole repository! || - ||Tags ||Similar to SVN branches. They are held in ./tags/{tagname} and basically a read-only svn copy of trunk. ||Tags in GIT are just a name to a specific commit-sha1. Basically just a shortcut for the sha1. Like with branches, a tag is always over the __whole__ || - ||Modularisation ||SVN fully supports sparse checkout and treats the checked out content without any difference whether it is a full project tree or just a sub-project ||GIT originally didn't know any sparse checkout. This capability only got added in git-1.7.0 and works quite different. You will still get the whole tree content in your .git/objects. Also all tags and branches performed on such a sparse checked out project will still cover the whole repo. There is support for git-submodules, but this is more similar to the flat project mapping of Eclipse than a real nested project structure. || - || || || || - - -
