Choosing svn or git for small scale projects?

2010-05-24 Thread Peng Yu
I have several projects that at most 4 to 5 people are going to work on. At any particular time, there are are at most 2 or 3 people working on a same project. It seems that git outperform svn for large scale projects. I have read a few webpages on the comparison between svn and git. What is clear

Re: Choosing svn or git for small scale projects?

2010-05-24 Thread Stanimir Stamenkov
Mon, 24 May 2010 15:02:31 -0500, /Peng Yu/: Does svn offer all the capability that gits offer in terms of branching and merging (ignoring performance issues)? : ... from the release notes for Subversion 1.5: Mer

Re: Choosing svn or git for small scale projects?

2010-05-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/24/2010 3:02 PM, Peng Yu wrote: I have several projects that at most 4 to 5 people are going to work on. At any particular time, there are are at most 2 or 3 people working on a same project. It seems that git outperform svn for large scale projects. I have read a few webpages on the compar

Re: Choosing svn or git for small scale projects?

2010-05-24 Thread Stanimir Stamenkov
Mon, 24 May 2010 23:33:12 +0300, /Stanimir Stamenkov/: Mon, 24 May 2010 15:02:31 -0500, /Peng Yu/: Does svn offer all the capability that gits offer in terms of branching and merging (ignoring performance issues)?

Re: Choosing svn or git for small scale projects?

2010-05-24 Thread David Weintraub
Many people think that Git MUST be better because Linus Tolvards uses it. But, that's mainly because of the way the Linux project operates. I've had developers tell me how much better Git is when they work with on their own one-man projects because Git is "distributed". They don't realize that Git

Re: Choosing svn or git for small scale projects?

2010-05-24 Thread Stanimir Stamenkov
Mon, 24 May 2010 17:49:22 -0400, /David Weintraub/: Many people think that Git MUST be better because Linus Tolvards uses it. But, that's mainly because of the way the Linux project operates. I've had developers tell me how much better Git is when they work with on their own one-man projects

Re: Choosing svn or git for small scale projects?

2010-05-24 Thread Sarah George
For me the key differences between git and svn come down to development model. In general, they can both be made to do the same things and which is easier to “bend to your will" comes down to how you prefer to work. If you have a defined group of people working on a project, and want to have a sin