Monthly Archive for May, 2008

Moving from Subversion to Git

I started using version control management systems with CVS several years ago.
But soon it was clear that using Subversion instead of CVS would make version control a lot less cumbersome and error prone process. And for the last years Subversion was the system of my choice.

But then I saw Linus Torvalds’ Tech Talk speak at Google about his new version control system called Git.
Although Linus’ talk was a little bit offensive on other version control systems I liked the idea of Git being a distributed system. Other features like the true ease of branching/merging or its speed made it even more attractive.
So I played around with it for a while and I started to like it. This weekend I decided to switch all my Subversion managed projects to Git.
There are some good tools that come with Git which make this process very easy. I don’t want to give another tutorial how to move your Subversion to Git. There are a lot of websites that do that. But here are some links which helped me doing the transition: