From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2010-01-27T01:58:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Open Source Subversion Hosting

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@marnen.org> wrote:
> Thomas Sawyer wrote:
>> Looking for Rubyist's recommendations for free open-source Subversion
>> hosting now that Rubyforge is being (albeit ever so slowly) phased
>> out.
>>
>> I host most of my work on Github and I am very happy with it (even
>> though I find using git itself a bit like working in a 1970s CS
>> lab ;).
>
> Then you're not using Git properly, I think.
>
>> But I have a number of scrap projects, code snippets,
>> explorations, and so on, that I want to keep in a repo, something more
>> suitable to Subversion b/c it handles sub-projects well.
>
> So does Git.  In fact, Git does everything Subversion does, but better.
> Do yourself a big favor and drop Subversion entirely.

Git handles subprojects, sure... but it's arguable whether it does
them *well* :)
That said, most other things about git are far nicer than git, so this
wart is something tolerable.

I love git, but it's strange how people can get all militant fan-boy
over it.   Oh well, such is life.

-greg