Currently, I hosted my repositories with XP-Dev that utilize Subversion as it’s source code management system (SCM). Hearing a lot of hypes about the Git, I did try setting up a git account at Project Locker.
Yep, it seems that Git is really is an advance SCM. It has a lot of features. What differentiate it from Subversion is it’s decentralize repository system. Rather than recreate the post, you can read it at Why you should switch form Subversion to Git.
On Mac, if you’re using git, there an open source Git UI called GitX. It trying to utilize the advance features in Git producing such an interface. You have a history graph which I’ve never seen in Subversion UI yet. After you commit, you can see which file and which line has been merges/changes rather than executing command diff.
When you first checkout, you are cloning form the main repository. Thus, when you are in offline mode, you can still commit or revert to previous revision. When you online, push it the server and it will merge with other repo.
Frankly, I would love to convert to Git but project-wise, Subversion can still do what Git can do since my project is not so big and with small team. Moreover, Git is complex because of features it has while in Subversion, I just need to commit or update and does not worry about commit, push and branch merging etc.
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