Question

I’m using SVN right now, and I’ve used CVS and VSS in the past. SVN is the current favourite in my books, but I’ve been hearing a lot about git. Of the people that have used git, what are the pros and cons from your experience?

Answer 1

I don’t have a lot of experience with git, but:

Pros:

• It’s really quick
• Local commits rock
• Quick to start a new repository (no configuration etc)
• github is easy to use

(I haven’t really ‘needed’ the distributed side of things yet, beyond being able to have a local repository and push to a public one.)

Cons:

• Windows support is still lagging behind, I believe – and you can’t just use it from a normal command prompt
• Lack of IDE and Explorer integration
• It took me a while to find a good introductory text along the lines of the redbean book.
• The fact that ‘adding’ a changed file only adds the contents at that point of time (so it can show up as staged for commit and still have modifications which require another git add) took a while to grasp