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Paul TBBle Hampson wrote:
> Having recently become enamoured of git, (and git-svn), I'd love to
>   

Torvalds has recently lobbied git as ready for mainstream, but he also 
noted that it doesn't have all the nice front-end features of other 
SCMs. If git can be used with tools like TortiseSVN/TortiseMerge, or 
anything like that, it may be worthwhile to review.

One minor difference about git is that the merge process is pushed 
downstream rather than upstream like svn. The pulls are cleaner on git 
since the responsibility of merge is put more on those downstream.

The major difference is that the repository has to be broken up into 
git-projects unlike where everything is put together in svn, being only 
delineated by directories.

Torvalds tends to compare svn to cvs in the sense of a linear 
repository, which cvs is a major restriction of cvs. He doesn't seem to 
make any comparison to a svn repository that is setup more to a deep 
tree structure. You can easily recognized the branch level in svn. Most 
svn users still have their repository setup in a linear fashion with one 
branch level, being one branch directory with lots of version 
directories stuck under that one branch directory. The power of git can 
be still simulated in a svn-repository with the deeper tree structure, 
where you have branches that spawn more branch directories and each 
sub-branch level feeds into the super-branch level. At that point, git 
only does it in a more distributed fashion.


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