From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2007-03-15T05:46:19+09:00 Subject: Re: Why SVN? On 3/12/07, Trans wrote: > Should I be using SVN rather than Darcs or Git? Yes. Darcs and Git are distributed version control systems without much proven technology behind them, and are painfully Unix-oriented. > So I'm wondering, what's so special about SVN as opposed to the other > choices? Is it because SVN is more like CVS than the other choices? > The fact that SVN isn't distributed I would think would work against > it (though I hear SVK is supposed to deal with that). Darcs is written > in Haskell, and from the word on the street a lot of Ruby folk seem to > like Haskell. Also, Git was written by Linus Torvalds, which is about > as good as credentials can get. Quality in kernel management doesn't mean his version control system is any good. I'm not saying it's bad -- at all -- but the credentials don't transfer there. Distributed systems fit very few development models. -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * http://www.halostatue.ca/ * austin@halostatue.ca * http://www.halostatue.ca/feed/ * austin@zieglers.ca