Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

["Lucas Rocha" <lucasr gnome org>]

Hi,

I hate to do this but... again... please move this discussion to a
more appropriate mailing list like d-d-l or gnome-infrastructure.

Thanks,

--lucasr


2007/9/11, Sanford Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>:
> On 9/8/07, Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org> wrote:
> > <quote who="Sanford Armstrong">
> >
> > > I simply meant that less people are familiar with D-SCM tools and that
> > > they are somewhat harder for a newbie to learn than C-SCM tools.
> >
> > This is an unfortunate cultural relic created by arch/tla, and hilariously
> > promulgated by git. Sure, fewer people are familiar with them, but the good
> > ones are not harder to learn.
>
> I'm not really talking about the UI of the D-SCM tool, but about some
> fundamentals of the distributed model.  Getting code and pushing code
> seems to always require an additonal step.  Users have to learn about
> branching and merging up front, whereas in SVN this would come later
> in their education.  If I were a newbie developer I would find this
> confusing.  As I've stated, I don't have much experience with D-SCM,
> but these are the instructions to get started hacking on one project
> using bzr...
>
> $ bzr init-repo --trees some-project
> $ cd some-project
> $ bzr checkout http://url/to/some-project
> $ bzr branch mainline working
> $ cd working
> $ ./configure
> $ make
>
> ...compared to the same steps using svn...
>
> $ svn co http://url/to/some-project/trunk some-project
> $ cd some-project
> $ ./configure
> $ make
>
> There's just a higher cognitive investment for a newbie getting
> started with D-SCM.  As bzr/git/etc become more common in the FLOSS
> communities, this won't be as much of an issue, though.  And the
> advantages of the distributed model have been well covered here.  :-)
>
> Sandy
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