Friday, September 9, 2011

GIT VS SVN

SVN is one repo and lots of clients. GIT is a repo with lots of client repos, each with a user. It's decentralised to a point where people can track their own edits locally without having to push things to an external server.

SVN is designed to be more central where GIT is based on each user having their own GIT repo and those repos push changes back up into a central one. For that reason, GIT gives individuals better local version control.

I would definitely recommend git over subversion; its simply so much more versatile and allows "offline development" in a way subversion never really could. Its available on almost every platform imaginable and has more features than you'll probably ever use.

reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/161541/svn-vs-git

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