I started to use Git couple of month ago.
OMG!!!! I will never get back to SVN (If I will have a choice)
a) Most of operations local. They are super fast and I don’t need an internet connection.
b) I can do 25 local intermediate commits without worrying that such commit may break somebody else’s build.
c) I can see all untracked files. So, I will never again forget to add a new file to a commit.
d) I can stash my changes and switch easily between multiple versions to fix some bug and to get back to things which I did before.
If you didn’t try it yet, give it a try.
Even if you don’t have choice you can work with git as a client and svn as central repository. git-svn bridge exists. Similarly git-tfs exists as well (this is how I work currently, as TFS is very-very bad source control system, close to absolutely unusable IMO).
That’s interesting. I have never thought of it, but it’s really good idea.
I would prefer Mercurial over git as git is more oriented towards nerds 🙂
I don’t know how bridges git-SomeOtherVCS works but when I tried different bridges Mercurial-Svn that was a total fail. You can export commits to Svn or import them from Svn, but everything breaks when you start to use local branches. So I pushed our organisation to switch to Mercurial. Now everybody is happy 🙂
I didn’t work much with hg, but in general I find internal structure of git pretty straightforward. And when you grasp how git stores things – abilities become almost obvious. New guys that never used DVCS before were able to start understanding and working in 30-40 minutes. So, I don’t agree that git is nerd-oriented 😛
As for using bridges… if you have luxury to select system of your organization – working natively with git or hg is definitely better, hands down. But sometimes it is a matter of political decision and can’t be changed unfortunately.
Local branches are working fine in git-something always, but pushing to remote branches is a problem currently. Actually, git-tfs doesn’t support this yet at all 🙁
Actually, we’re working in git in normal way and sharing git branches as usual, but pushing to TFS is always to the same main branch – exactly due to branch restrictions. Nevertheless it is MUCH better than to work with TFS natively, believe me 🙂
We do you like Mercurial more? (just curious)
I think it doesn’t matter which one of these two you will choose. The main think is that you finally switched from Svn and Tfs.
I like Hg more because it looks easier, it has more friendlier GUI (with TortoiseHg), you shouldn’t setup SSH when pushing to remote repo. And when I considered which to choose BitBucket offered only Hg repos (and I prefer BitBucket over GitHub because BitBucket offers unlimited number of private repos though I like GitHub’s interface and functionality more). Now BitBucket offers Git repos too so it is no longer the case. And Spolsky (and FogCreek) prefer Hg too (look at http://inithg.com and http://kilnhg.com). Now we use FogBugz and I hope someday we could buy Kiln.
Here’s a comparision:
http://blogs.atlassian.com/2012/02/mercurial-vs-git-why-mercurial/
http://blogs.atlassian.com/2012/03/git-vs-mercurial-why-git/
So you can choose any of these two and you will be the winner in any case 🙂
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