Let me start off by saying "I truly don't want to start a religious war here" (as he fires the first volley on unsuspecting noncombatants).
Why git instead of subversion? Oh dear... now I've done it. Beats a hasty retreat.... I'm asking purely for educating porpoises here. I made the switch to subversion from cvs 1 to 1.5 years ago and have been quite happy with subversion... it's integration into Emacs could certainly be improved, but it basically works for me. Probably not applicable to developers on this list, but the TortoiseSVN integration in Windows is what sold it to other developers here at my company. 6 to 9 months after I made the switch, I started hearing about git and wondered to myself "Now why would Linus Torvalds feel the need to invent something that's already been invented several times... what makes it better or different than, for example, subversion?" So I poked around and I learned that git its better because it uses a distributed repository instead of a central repository. At that point I stopped trying to figure it out, since that didn't make much sense to me. But now I have an opportunity to ask some folks in the know... what's the big deal? --wpd _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
