Re: GIT vs Other: Need argument

From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date: Apr 18, 2007, 03:09 UTC
Message-ID: <46258BEC.7050603@vilain.net>
In-Reply-To: <8b65902a0704170841q64fe0828mdefe78963394a616@mail.gmail.com>

Guilhem Bonnefille wrote:

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> I'm new to Git, but completly crazy of it.
>
> In my point of view, in corporate team, lot of people does not
> want/need the power offered by Git.
> So, my conclusion is the better model in a corporate is a centralyzed
> repo with some users using Git as "frontend". Other people will simply
> use the native tools for accessing the repo.
>
> I didn't try Git with CVS repo but seems less usable in day to day
> work than a SVN repo with git-svn FANTASTIC tool.
>
> So the problem is simply now: how to convince people to migrate from
> CVS to SVN. This will be really less difficult as CVS and SVN are
> quite similar.
>

Once git-svnserver is available, it should be possible to work the other way, too - use git as the repository format and support Subversion users through a subversion interface flavour. Then you don't lose the merge tracking and fast checkout performance for those who can use the native protocol.

Sam.