Re: do you recommend "git" (over svn) for a 1-person team???

[Ted Pavlic <ted@tedpavlic.com>]

> Do you recommend "git" (over svn) for a 1-person team???   (the
> ability to commit whilst offline on my laptop sounds potentially
> enough reason)

At this point, it is clear that you've bought into using *some* form of 
revision control locally. So you are really asking whether DVCS is 
appropriate for personal-only use. If all you care about is the ability 
to commit locally, then you might as well use vanilla RCS (i.e., the 
ultimate "plumbing" behind SVN).

How easy DVCS solutions make merging and rebasing is a secondary feature 
for me. Primarily, I like that while doing my work, I don't ever have to 
*think* about the revision control. I don't have to check out or lock 
files. I don't have to worry about checking in all of my changes. I just 
work, and, when I'm ready, the DVCS takes care of everything else. It's 
the *overall* ease of use that makes DVCS so valuable to me...  (and who 
knows... maybe later someone will want to clone my repo and we'll trade 
commits back and forth)

[ Keep in mind that git is not the only DVCS. For some of my personal 
projects, I use hg (Mercurial), and for others I use git. On none of 
them do I use SVN. Unfortunately, the proliferation of SVN on 
SourceForge has prevented me from contributed myriad local patches to 
projects that are otherwise very important to me. Perhaps another great 
reason to use DVCS locally is that you'll be putting implicit pressure 
on places like SF to modernize. ]

Best --
Ted

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