Of course not but it wouldn't happen as often as it does right now and we 
wouldn't have so much trouble with it for sure (as the number of 
commiters/contributors gets higher).
And to be honest, git actually has some more "magic" than svn and certainly 
some better approaches.
I won't point out the differences in detail, everyone is able to have a look at 
descriptions of those systems.

Denis 

On Wednesday, 28. March 2012 at 5:16 PM, Christopher Brooks wrote:

> > svn is obsolete and not a good version control tool for so many
> > contributors. I pointed out the many advantages of git already.
> > And right now you all see how "good" svn is at branching/merging
> > back/whatever (just have a look at the broken trunk). I don't want to
> > say "I said it" but... I said it.
> > 
> 
> 
> Git doesn't magically fix mergebacks.
> 
> When there is a conflict because of out of order editing a human needs
> to fix it. Neither git nor svn will do this automatically.
> 
> Are you suggesting that a change to git will mean our trunk never
> breaks?
> 
> Chris
> 
> -- 
> Christopher Brooks, BSc, MSc
> ARIES Laboratory, University of Saskatchewan
> 
> Web: http://www.cs.usask.ca/~cab938
> Phone: 1.306.966.1442
> Mail: Advanced Research in Intelligent Educational Systems Laboratory
> Department of Computer Science
> University of Saskatchewan
> 176 Thorvaldson Building
> 110 Science Place
> Saskatoon, SK
> S7N 5C9
> 
> 


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