Comparison of CVS and Git (was: Re: Migration from CVS to GIT)

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 23, 2011, 08:11 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <1308808706969-6507269.post@n2.nabble.com>

sandy2010 <sandeeptt@yahoo.com> writes:

> Thanks Michael! This worked like a charm! I was not aware that we can do such
> things in CVS. Can you point me to some good docs/articles on such
> comparison of CVS and Git?

A bit of self-promotion:

  "Difference between GIT and CVS" on StackOverflow (my answer)
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/802573/difference-between-git-and-cvs/824241#824241

A blog post I recently found, describing how the workflow changed rather that the differences between Git and CVS:

  "From CVS to Git, 9 Things I\u2019ve Learned" on EclipseSource blog
  http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2011/06/09/git-lessons-learned/

This article describes how Git could came into being, IMHO quite well presenting Git philosophy as well:

  "The Git Parable" by Tom Preston-Werner (of GitHub)
  http://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.html

And just FYI, another tool to convert CVS to Git (non-incremental):

  http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git