[ Thanks to Lee
Schlesinger for this link. ]
“git-svn is a neat, straightforward tool that allows you to run
a Git repository locally, then sync back against a central
Subversion repository. Obviously, this is useful if you want to try
Git out, or if your workmates aren’t interested in switching but
you prefer Git. But it’s also handy for anyone who regularly works
offline – for example, when traveling. Git, unlike SVN, is a
distributed version control system, which means that you have your
own local copy of the repository. This, combined with the ease of
branching (which we’ll talk about in a moment), means that you can
keep track of your changes locally and incrementally, committing
them to your own repository as often as you like, until you’re
ready to commit the whole lot back to the main repository. By
contrast, with a normal Subversion repository, it’s all or nothing;
you can’t track any incremental changes that you can’t or don’t
want to commit to the main repository – as you might wish to
do, for example, with temporarily broken code on its way to a
refactor. If you’ve ever got halfway through coding a feature
change and started to feel nervous about how much you have
untracked, you’ll appreciate this option. For more on Git’s
advantages in this area, see the Wazi article Rewriting History
with Git.”