Seconding Markus - My biggest issue switching from svn to git was honestly
the word "checkout". It means two different things between them, and I
found myself doing stupid things all the time. Outside of that, and the
weird "staging area" thing I never got a hold of but can be easily skipped,
I didn't think it was all that terrible of a switch.
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Markus Sitzmann <[email protected]>wrote:
> I started with CVS, switch to svn, tried to learn git which made my head
> explode. However, for some odd reasons I didn't gave up on git, and one day
> it make click. Since then I switched everything to git and never looked
> back. I agree, when you come from CVS and svn, git changes your way of
> thinking. It is probably easier to start right away with git - but its
> concept is more logic.
>
>
>
> On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:23:57 -0500, greg landrum <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > You ask an excellent question. I will provide my two cents, from the
> > context of someone who has been saying "DVCS solves a problem I don't
> > have" for a couple years now.
> >
> > There is definitely a big learning curve for those of us who have been
> > using cvs/svn for years (I think it may be more difficult for an svn
> > user to switch to fit than for someone who has never used version
> > control to learn it); that's a strike against git. It's also super
> > trendy, which makes me nervous. Finally, a lot of the criticisms that
> > git zealots make of svn are poorly informed and/or based on old versions
> > of svn. (Finally+1: the iOS spelling correction really seems to hate
> > "git")
> >
> > Having said all that, git and related systems do make it much easier for
> > other people to contribute to an open source project because they allow
> > the others to use source control to track their changes without them
> > having to have commit access to the main code repository. There are some
> > other advantages (among them having access to version control while
> > offline) but that one is just a giant plus. Technically people could
> > also accomplish that using svn and a vendor branch, but that is a pretty
> > large pain and would not help with merging their changes/additions into
> > the core when the time comes for that.
> >
> > -greg
> >
> > On Feb 1, 2013, at 4:10 PM, "Igor Filippov [Contr]"
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Rant
> >>
> >> I tried working with git naively thinking I'll figure it out on the go
> >> (after long working with CVS and SVN). Nothing doing. Then I found a few
> >> tutorials. The description of detached heads and other arcana made my
> >> brain explode.
> >> Why does version control need to be so complex?
> >> Do we really need it for projects not involving thousands of developers
> >> and millions lines of code?
> >>
> >> /Rant
> >
> >
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