Re: Choosing svn or git for small scale projects?

Mon, 24 May 2010 23:33:12 +0300, /Stanimir Stamenkov/:
> Mon, 24 May 2010 15:02:31 -0500, /Peng Yu/:
>
>> Does svn offer all the capability that gits offer in terms of
>> branching and merging (ignoring performance issues)?
>
> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2475831/merging-hg-git-vs-svn/2477089#2477089>:
>
>
>> ... from the release notes for Subversion 1.5: Merge tracking
>> (foundational) it looks like there are the following differences from
>> how merge tracking work in full-DAG version control systems like Git
>> or Mercurial.
>> (...)

May be this one worth citing in here, too (if it is relevant to your
development):

> * In "Known Issues" there is warning that merge tracking migh not
> work with file renames, e.g. when one side renames file (and perhaps
> modifies it), and second side modifies file without renaming (under
> old name).
>
> Both Git and Mercurial handle such case just fine in practice:
> Git using rename detection, Mercurial using rename tracking.

-- 
Stanimir