LLVM Developers Prefer Git Over SVN

[phoronix]

Phoronix: LLVM Developers Prefer Git Over SVN

While the LLVM compiler infrastructure is primarily developed around Subversion, a poll was recently conducted that found LLVM developers overwhelmingly prefer Git over SVN for version control...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTIzMTg

[uid313]

Not only LLVM developers prefer Git, everyone prefers Git!

I don't know if Git is overhyped, or if its really awesome.
But everyone seem to be all over Git.

[Milyardo]

The real news here is that there those who would choose Subversion over git.

[Aiua]

Not only LLVM developers prefer Git, everyone prefers Git!

I don't know if Git is overhyped, or if its really awesome.
But everyone seem to be all over Git.

Actually, DVCS is awesome, so clearly, SVN cannot compete

[Veerappan]

Actually, DVCS is awesome, so clearly, SVN cannot compete

Agreed. I definitely prefer Git over Subversion, but when it comes to Hg (which we use at work) vs Git (everything else I've done), I'm not so sure...

[necro-lover]

fake breaking news: LLVM developers switch to AGPLv3 or later not only because GIT is better also because they found the wisdom of RMS and peace of freedom and the fight against the end-user is over and the patent war is also over because its so much cheaper and more profitable to let it go.

[tomato]

Not only LLVM developers prefer Git, everyone prefers Git!

I don't know if Git is overhyped, or if its really awesome.
But everyone seem to be all over Git.

At first I thought that it really is overhyped (if only because it is more complicated and harder to use than SVN), until I needed to prepare some patch sets and re-work them few times, keep few trees up-to-date with mainline, etc. Then I went to "how people were able to develop software before git?!".

You need to spend good few hours learning it to be able to use it comfortably, but it really does make good development easier. It's fast and you can do basically anything with it, you just need to know how.

fake breaking news: LLVM developers switch to AGPLv3 or later not only because GIT is better also because they found the wisdom of RMS and peace of freedom and the fight against the end-user is over and the patent war is also over because its so much cheaper and more profitable to let it go.

one can dream, one can only dream...

[cbamber85]

Actually, DVCS is awesome, so clearly, SVN cannot compete

The fact that it is distributed doesn't really make things much better. Where Git destroys SVN is in its merging strategy, modern development models create highly branched revision trees, so lots of merging - SVN just doesn't handle merging as well.

[bug77]

The fact that it is distributed doesn't really make things much better. Where Git destroys SVN is in its merging strategy, modern development models create highly branched revision trees, so lots of merging - SVN just doesn't handle merging as well.

Git fits well with open source projects (it was built to do so). But most large companies would go bankrupt if developers (mostly clueless) would need to branch and merge. In my experience, all you can expect to be reasonably well handled within such a company is branching a release, comitting some fixes there if needed and then forgetting about it. In these environments svn is still king, if they don't choose to go with a more 'powerful' solution like (pardon the expression) clearcase, perforce...
Also, I'm not bothered by projects that stick with svn. git-svn is good enough so you can still keep branching and merging as you wish.

[tomato]

But most large companies would go bankrupt if developers (mostly clueless) would need to branch and merge.

Merging should be done only by project manager, regular developers should at most rebase their work to current main branch...