#65 Please talk about the cases where a true DVCS like Git would be better than SVN

[Anonymous]

Originally created by: jasonspiro4@gmail.com

Thanks for writing your excellent book and releasing it online.

At
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.intro.whatis.html#svn.intro.righttool
, please also talk about the cases where a true distributed version control
system like Git would be better.  For example, I hear Git is better at
handling extremely large repositories, like the Linux kernel repository,
with reasonable speed and agility.  You can also go to
http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSvnComparsion for more information on
advantages of each system, though that page is probably biased towards Git.

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Summary: Please talk about the cases where a true DVCS like Git would be better than SVN

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Issue 122 has been merged into this issue.

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Originally posted by: cmpilato

In reviewing this issue, it occurs to me that it's somewhat out of scope to try to offer a complete comparison of Subversion and, say, Git.  Presumably, a person reading this book is doing so because they want to know about Subversion.  That said, the "Is Subversion the Right Tool?" section was a bit stale in light of the DVCS explosion.  I've taken a pass at trying to at least draw attention to that VC approach and its major players as a way of hopefully giving readers cause to pause and consider whether there's more research they need to do before diving into Subversion.

Called this FIXED:
   Sending        book/ch00-preface.xml
   Transmitting file data .
   Committed [r4387].

(And backported to 1.7/en in [r4388].)

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