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Not related to DROD but was wondering if anyone had made the migration from svn (or other) to git?

I'm considering doing it with our codebase but not 100% convinced it's worth the time to do so. We're a small dev team (but globally distributed) so maybe the benefits aren't as apparent - though merging branches in svn is a nightmare which was my original idea why to switch.
05-20-2012 at 01:52 PM
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It seems like I may have asked a similar question about a year ago.

I used Git briefly for version control on the LaTeX files I was using (we republished a few books) but not very much. I'm not very knowledgeable on it but couldn't the dev team treat it like svn if they wanted to? I thought one could use svn commands.

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Yeah they could but that would beat what I consider the advantages of switching. They're also not all on Linux and it seems git is not Windows-friendly...

In any case, I'd like to know how easy a merge is in git compared to svn as that's a current issue
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There's tools for Git on Windows. It's a bit slower than on 'nix, but it works.

Branch merges in Git are nearly trivial, especially if there's no conflicting changes. They kinda have to be, since each person's copy of the repo is effectively a branch... Of course you'll want to manually verify it to make sure there's no weird interactions, and if the same part of the same file was changed in both a human needs to sort that out... but those are kinda unavoidable.

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05-23-2012 at 07:57 AM
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