[OSM-talk] git/svn

[Robert Scott]

On Wednesday 12 September 2007 07:10, spaetz wrote:
> I am not opposed to GIT (never having used it). But why can't we use SVN
> branching for this stuff (a Win32 branch etc).

Well, first of all, I don't think a win32 branch of anything is really a good 
idea. There are many advantages to having a unified source tree. Divergent 
branches are usually a bad thing.

Distributed SCM is not about branching - it's about exactly the opposite - 
merging. With a system that makes branches effortless it is quickly realised 
that long term divergent branches are stupid.

> IMHO SVN is a simple way to 
> avoid a discussion with no solution (I'd opt for Mercurial, if you want to
> go distributed, others prefer monotone, bazaar, arch,...).

The reason I said git was because it's simple, quick, and it works. And it's 
quite quickly becoming well known. I forgot about the windows issues.

The main advantage here of distributed SCM is that you don't even need an 
account to make your own branch of something.


robert.