Re: [Rails-devel] Idea: migrating away from cvs.

[Freek D. <sf_...@ma...>]

Erik Vos wrote:

> I have only a little experience with SVN, and none with Git, so I can't
> offer much help in this decision.

I have experiences in both subversion and git. Mercurial and Bazaar are 
new to me. Like most people, getting to understand git took a little 
while, but once I got it running, I like it.

For most of my personal projects, I still use subversion, but in my view 
subversion is lacking the ability for branching and tagging.

The naming of commands is a bit different in CVS and git. (while SVN is 
very similar to git). I made this page for my own personal reference:
http://www.macfreek.nl/mindmaster/Version_Control_Basics

There are two things to keep in mind:
- git stores the full repository locally, not just the latest
   revision like svn and cvs do.
- in order to "upload" a file with git, you first have to add the
   file to register changes, then commit (which is local), finally push.
This seemed complex to me at first, but over time I grew to like it.

Regards,
Freek