Re: Version control tools

[Urs Liska]

Am 07.01.2014 14:38, schrieb Simon Bailey:
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Urs Liska <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     As a follow-up question I'd be interested in whether people use
>     other version control systems beside Git. If you use more than one,
>     a short comparison would be of general interest I think.
>
>
> i use svn, that's what i know professionally and have been using for
> more than 10 years (probably closer to 15). for me as a single user, i
> see no benefit in using git -- i have my SVN repo on a server, and use
> that as a backup and interchange solution for working on 3 or 4
> different computers. on the macs i use cornerstone, windows TortoiseSVN
> and on linux command line.
>
> so, my follow up question: why use git as a single user? this is not a
> flame-war, i'm genuinely interested in any advantage that git will give
> me over svn. the most misused argument i hear, "you can check in
> regularly on your local machine and then send a big check-in to the
> repository later" doesn't do it for me. i generally check-in once a day,
> or when changing computers or when a score reaches milestones (initial
> setup, music entry finished, tweaking finished, final layout, etc.). i
> don't need to micro-manage my versions every time i add a musical
> phrase... ;)
>
> regards,
> sb

Thanks for the opinion. Unfortunately I can't help you with your 
follow-up question (due to lack of experience).

I don't think it would be advisable to encourage any _new_ user to learn 
SVN or CVS (if it isn't for a specific project of interest), but for 
your use case this is surely a valid question.

One think I love about decentralized version control systems (which 
again doesn't apply to your use case) is that you can interact between 
multiple forks of the repository.
For example I can add the repos of all the other Frescobaldi 
contributors as remotes and fetch their branches before they have even 
opened pull requests (or the other way round: I can ask others to test 
my branches before I open a pull request). Or I can collaborate with a 
given contributor and we prepare a feature branch together before 
opening the pull request.

Ah, finally one idea about your question, not based on experience but on 
randomly read statements: How can you use branches with SVN? If it's 
correct that Git branches are conceptually different through being so 
exceptionally light-weight then I'd think this _is_ an advantage even 
for a single user.

Urs