Re: Advice on choosing git

[Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Noah Silverman <noah@smartmediacorp.com> wrote:
> 1) I'd like to keep my documents directory synced between the office and
> home machines.
> 2) I'd like to keep two or three sub directories of this synced with my
> laptop
> 3) We have a server in "the cloud" where I like to keep backups of my
> documents.  Just in case.

Unison is a perfect fit for items 1 & 2. Works well over large files,
does not keep history.

The DSCMs tend to fall over with very large (often binary) files. A
few videos included in your presentation, high res TIFF images,
horrendously fat PDFs coming from a third party, even an openoffice
presentation with many imagees, all make the DSCMs choke, because
internally the DSCM wants to load it into RAM to store deltas.

The DSCM assumption is that a source file will fit in ram with ample
space to spare, to be delta'd (for storage) and diff'd.

> 3) I have a few project where I am the only developer, but want a VCS to
> manage my changes.
> 4) I have 3-4 projects where there are a team of 3 of us and I want to
> use a VCS.

git is a perfect fit for 3 & 4. Mercurial is a close competitor.

cheers,


m
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