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Re: Anybody home?

From
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date
Sep 15, 2011, 07:48 UTC
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Johannes Sixt wrote:
> Even when you want to exchange your commits between two or three machines,
> all you need is ssh access. There is no *git server* necessary. git is not
> svn. ;-)

I'd even put this somewhat more bluntly. My two-step advice on switching from svn to git is:

1) forget *everything* you know from SVN
2) learn git as usual

I don't hang out on IRC as much any more, so maybe it got better. But 90%[*] of SVN convert's problems seem to stem from some preconceived notions they carried over from SVN.

Such as, "HEAD is the newest commit". Or the whole centralized vs. distributed you mentioned.

[*] 78% of all statistics were made up on the spot
-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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