[sldev] git vs svn

[Joshua Bell]

dale at daleglass.net wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 06:11:38PM -0500, Argent Stonecutter wrote:
>   
>> I would note that there are a number of good GUI SVN client  
>> applications available for OSX and Windows. Git seems to have less  
>> widespread support.
>>     
>
> I would completely agree here, but IMO it's a strange way to decide.
>   
To throw something else into the mix: Mercurial is apparently quite 
similar in terms of usage patterns to git, is cross-platform, easily 
extensible, and there is a "tortoise-hg" project under way to create a 
TortoiseSVN-like GUI on top of Mercurial for Windows. I'm keeping an eye 
on that.

(FWIW, I do most of my merges via command line SVN, but when I'm 
drilling through the history of a branch, trying to find a change, or 
wanting to diff two versions, I find the TortoiseSVN GUI is much faster. 
When doing a big merge I'll often have both a command-line merge and 
color-coded svn diff results up on one screen and TortoiseSVN up on 
another so I can cross-check the changes.)