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Danieljomphe bookmarked on 2008-11-02 vcs comparison dvcs git subversion
  • It decouples the notion of checkpointing from publishing. In Subversion, those are the same thing
  • Git lets developers experiment with the whole of a project, without worrying about breaking things or losing work
  • With Git running locally, developers push commits whenever they feel like and can fork and experiment to their hearts’ content. Those changes won't bother anyone “until you share [them],” said Vilain. “You share at the end of the day, after a day's work, when you've gone over the code a bit more.”
  • “The reason that most of us use it is that it helps productivity,” said Scott Chacon, a developer at GitHub. “It provides cheap local branching. It works for really big repositories and really small repositories. And it’s free, and it’s easy to get.

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  • 02 Nov 08
    • It decouples the notion of checkpointing from publishing. In Subversion, those are the same thing
    • Git lets developers experiment with the whole of a project, without worrying about breaking things or losing work
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