From: John Devereux <john@devereux.me.uk>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Which revision control system do you use?
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:58:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871vswbmxn.fsf@cordelia.devereux.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11411C7B-8786-4059-95AC-5372AC27BDF4@gmail.com> (Wolfgang Schuster's message of "Mon\, 16 Mar 2009 21\:56\:48 +0100")
Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> to start the threat here is what I use(d). On my old Windows machines
> I used Subversion because it was easy to use with TortoiseSVN but since
> I'm on my Mac I use Mercurial for my files.
I use git. Originally for programming, but it is very useful for
context too. I used to use SVN too, but now prefer git because:
- it is very fast (instant for most things).
- Project repositories seem to stay small, disk space is used very
efficiently.
- easy per-project "repositories", each project is it's own
independent "repository". All the history is under a single, hidden
".git" folder at the root of the project. No central server to
maintain.
- I found the continuously incrementing svn repository "version
number" confusing with respect to multiple projects. And I seem to
recall problems with svn when directories were moved around within
a project.
- Git has a some nice graphical history visualisation and diff
tools.
--
John Devereux
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-17 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-16 20:56 Wolfgang Schuster
2009-03-16 21:00 ` Marcin Borkowski
2009-03-16 21:04 ` luigi scarso
2009-03-16 22:09 ` Peter Münster
2009-03-16 23:52 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-03-17 7:33 ` Alan Stone
2009-03-17 7:37 ` Marcin Borkowski
2009-03-17 7:58 ` John Devereux [this message]
2009-03-17 9:06 ` Nikolai Weibull
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