Gregory Brown wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser > <marnen / marnen.org> wrote: >> Gregory Brown wrote: > >>>> So does Git. In fact, Git does everything Subversion does, but better. >>>> Do yourself a big favor and drop Subversion entirely. >>> >>> Git handles subprojects, sure... but it's arguable whether it does >>> them *well* :) >> >> Is git submodule really any worse than svn external? > > When things get complicated, yes. Google around for some of the > problems. > >> I'm not meaning to be a militant fanboy. The couple of times I've gone >> back to Subversion after starting to work with Git have convinced me >> that I never want to work with Subversion again. > > Likewise, but that's mainly because I have a lot of needs that Git > meets. Otherwise, it might not be so important which one I choose. It's still important. The typical Subversion user never realizes the full potential of branching because Subversion makes merging so hard. > I know a lot of really smart Rubyists that still have this hangup > where they don't get git. I don't know why that is, but personally, > I rather them use svn than hear them constantly complain about how > "unintuitive" git is. I would say the opposite. I didn't get Git for a long time. I only get it now because I heard enough good things about it that I sort of forced myself to use it. > > I do agree on your point that there are a lot of incentives for using > Git in open source, though. > > -greg Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org marnen / marnen.org -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.