Re: git is a lot better than SVN (???)

On Tuesday 16 August 2005 03:10, Stefano Spinucci wrote:

> In the article "Linux: Using Git For More Than The
> Kernel" (http://kerneltrap.org/node/5557) Linus
> Torvalds says "...quite frankly, I think git is a lot
> better than CVS (or even SVN) by now...".

After your post, I have tired out GIT only to discover that it was not able to
put symlinks into the repository. Since we use symlinks extensively, this
"feature" makes GIT absolutely unsuitable for our needs. So far with being
better than Subversion...

Actually, of all Open Source version control systems, it seems that only
Subversion and Arch (tla) support symlinks. I have tried also OpenCM,
Monotone, Cogito/Git, Darcs, oh yes, and CVS ;). None of them accepted
symlinks :(. As for tla, it strikes as very complicated, and also refused to
accept my source tree with filenames starting with dot (like .something.d).

So, Subversion wins :).

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