Re: Version control tools (was: Survey: Git (G)UIs)

[Simon Bailey]

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Urs Liska <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 

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