I agree with Ted: screwing up your repository (I assume a local clone
of something remote) in svn is much easier than in git, for example by
moving a folder from one place to another. If I can recommend
something, this book is quite nice, especially for beginners ("Basic
Usage" chapter):http://book.git-scm.com/ Dawid On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Lance Norskog <[email protected]> wrote: > I have the ability to bollix svn in ways that nobody else fathoms. Some fans > promote Mercurial as "Git without pain". > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Lance Norskog <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > One important caveat: git is a rope factory for hanging yourself. It >> badly >> > needs a Chef/Puppet-style "describe the end result" executor. Don't be >> > surprised when you have to re-build your whole checkout when something >> > unfathomable blows up. >> > >> >> I hear this warning from various people, but actually have seen this less >> with git than with various other systems. Hg especially seems to like to >> get a wedgy. >> >> Start with scripted workflows and work outward. >> > > > > -- > Lance Norskog > [email protected] >
