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Revision Control: Git or Subversion?

Apr 13, 2009  By Webmistress

If you had to choose one or the other, which would it be?

Git
49% (373 votes)
Subversion
51% (381 votes)
Total votes: 754
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the difference?

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 04/14/2009 - 18:28.

A nice followup may be a brief illustration of the major differences between the two in terms of functionality. I have always been aware of CVS, then subversion, and more recently git...yet I haven't really been able to determine why someone would choose one over the other. Given the popularity of cvs and svn, I can't help but believe they work just fine, which makes me wonder why git came about (again, my assumption is that it's new).

You're forgetting the most important

Steven Bakker's picture
Submitted by Steven Bakker (not verified) on Tue, 04/14/2009 - 06:27.

I fondly remember SCCS. I miss it so much, in fact, that I still prefix my "$Id$" strings with "@(#)".

Seriously.

missing poll options

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 04/14/2009 - 06:08.

missing poll options:
Mercurial
Bazaar
Darcs
CVS :-)

Also, as linux users we should be aware a popular choice is not always the best for a person's needs.

Weird question

goblin's picture
Submitted by goblin on Tue, 04/14/2009 - 02:56.

If you had to choose one or the other, which would it be?

O Yellow soda pop
O Green soda pop

that one's easy though

Webmistress's picture
Submitted by Webmistress on Tue, 04/14/2009 - 13:09.

definitely yellow. all the way.

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Different jobs?

Devin's picture
Submitted by Devin (not verified) on Mon, 04/13/2009 - 19:26.

Depends on how it's going to be used?

Guess I'll refrain from

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 04/13/2009 - 17:35.

Guess I'll refrain from voting.

I'm a human, and like my sane-by-default revision numbers, thanks.

Inconclusive

Timmy Macdonald's picture
Submitted by Timmy Macdonald (not verified) on Mon, 04/13/2009 - 17:20.

Considering they're only off by two votes, and only 37 people voted, I feel like the results are pretty inconclusive. This would actually make a great point/counterpoint article.