[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“For anyone unfamiliar with free and open source
version control systems (VCSs), Subversion has become the standard
non-commercial VCS, replacing the old champ, Concurrent Versions
System (CVS). CVS is still just fine for limited use, but
Subversion’s allure is that it requires only a little bit of setup
on a Web server and not much beyond that. Subversion does have some
issues, which I’ll discuss here, but for the most part, it just
works.“So, why do we need another one? Git (capital “G”; git is the
command-line tool) is in many ways designed to be better than
Subversion. It is one of many distributed VCSs. My own first
experience with these was with Arch/tla, as well as Mercurial,
Bazaar, darcs, and a few others. For many reasons, which I’ll
discuss as far as they are relevant, Git has become popular and is
often considered together with Subversion as the two leading
choices for a personal or corporate VCS.“There are two important reasons to be interested in Git if you
are a Subversion user.You are looking to move to Git because Subversion is limiting
you in some way.“You are curious about Git and want to find out how it compares
to Subversion.”