From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Rast Subject: Re: Anybody home? Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:48:08 +0200 Message-ID: <201109150948.09040.trast@student.ethz.ch> References: <4E71A5FF.5040807@viscovery.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Johannes Sixt , Git List To: Joshua Stoutenburg X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Sep 15 09:48:17 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R46gC-00018K-8N for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:48:16 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755023Ab1IOHsL (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2011 03:48:11 -0400 Received: from edge10.ethz.ch ([82.130.75.186]:20190 "EHLO edge10.ethz.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754858Ab1IOHsK (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2011 03:48:10 -0400 Received: from CAS12.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.212) by edge10.ethz.ch (82.130.75.186) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.339.1; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:48:07 +0200 Received: from thomas.inf.ethz.ch (129.132.153.233) by CAS12.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.212) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.339.1; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:48:09 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.0.4-43-desktop; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <4E71A5FF.5040807@viscovery.net> X-Originating-IP: [129.132.153.233] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Sixt wrote: > Even when you want to exchange your commits between two or three machines, > all you need is ssh access. There is no *git server* necessary. git is not > svn. ;-) I'd even put this somewhat more bluntly. My two-step advice on switching from svn to git is: 1) forget *everything* you know from SVN 2) learn git as usual I don't hang out on IRC as much any more, so maybe it got better. But 90%[*] of SVN convert's problems seem to stem from some preconceived notions they carried over from SVN. Such as, "HEAD is the newest commit". Or the whole centralized vs. distributed you mentioned. [*] 78% of all statistics were made up on the spot -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch