From: Mike Gold <mike.gold.4433@...>
Date: 2009-01-03T07:41:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21079] Re: Happy new year and... moving Ruby development to Git?

mathew wrote:
> Git is currently the flavor of the month. [...]

The blog you cited makes no sense to me.  I would respond there, but I
was unable to register with or without OpenID.

In the essential functions, git is a superset of subversion.  The
blogger talks about how using the subversion subset of git is safer if
you are not familiar with git.  But that's a tautology.  Make some
aliases In ~/.gitconfig,

[alias]
di = diff HEAD
cm = commit -a

That is the subversion subset within git.

git di  <=> svn diff
git cm <=> svn commit

There are solid reasons for the increased flexibility git provides via
the index.  Some are similar to the reasons perforce users scoff at
subversion for not having changelists.  I will not list them here, but
believe me they arise from experience.

It is entirely sensible to elect not to use the additional
functionality git offers with the index cache -- to stick with the
subversion subset instead.  Really I wonder what the problem is.

Those who still use svn locally are really missing out.  Once you
become accustomed to improving your local commits with rebase, it is
impossible to look back.