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

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Greg Hauptmann <greg.hauptmann.ruby@gmail.com> writes:

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

Beside much easier (I think) sync between desktop and offline laptop?

You don't need to setup Subversion server (even if it is setting up
place for repositories): "git init" is enough (and you can use
filesystem, or bundles, or ssh for sync). 

You don't have '.svn' in each directory, but one '.git' at the top
directory of your project (module).

You have (from what I have read) better support for file renames,
better support for binary files, and much easier merging branches
(before Subversion 1.5 you had to use third party tools (SVK or
svnmerge) to not have to do merges "manually", and even now the
support for easy merging is IMHO worse in SVN).

You have all those nifty tools like git-bisect, git-log with --grep
and -S (pickaxe), git-mergetool, git-blame which follows code movement
at request (see e.g. "git gui blame"), git-stash, incremental
comitting, comitting part of changes, etc.


What Subversion has over Git (becuase it is longer) is better tools...
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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