comments about git

[Cantor, Scott]

On 2/26/13 4:06 PM, "Brent Putman" <putmanb at georgetown.edu> wrote:
>
>Remind me again why plain old svn branching is seen as not a good
>solution for these issues?  E.g. not breaking builds with incremental
>changes, and code reviews before we "commit" to a new design, etc.  For
>the record I was planning on using branches in the near future for some
>of the stuff I'll be working on.

It's viewed as more hassle to branch svn, and git is much more efficient
at switching between branches within a working copy, but if you find
branching reasonable and are willing to do it, then I think there's very
little difference other than the work being "out there" in svn instead of
local.

But basically it's just the tools and the ease of switching a working copy
to examine a branch. With git, it's a local operation instead of a remote
one that has to pull the whole branch.

-- Scott