The Blogosphere reacts to Linus Torvald’s talk on git, notably here, here, and here.
Two features of the distributed model appeal to me:
- The ability to make offline commits
- Better control over merges
BTW branching and merging is not just for source code. Consider the following case. You have a draft and you want to experiment with a different narrative. Make a branch and, if your satisfied with the result, merge it with the main draft.
When I have time, I might leverage my experience with subversion and try svk, a decentralized version control system built on subversion’s file system. More information about svk can be found on the svk wiki and in this nice article by Chia-liang Kao, the orignial developer of svk.
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