[Scilab-Dev] Re: Re: Leaving SVN to GIT

[Simone Mannori]

Bonjour, 

> > I do not try to discourage your choice. I mean at the end it's
> > your(Scilab dev team) concerns and this could be more of a
> > philosophical debate but I do often use the svn repo as I'm coding
> > from the trunk and the idea of dealing with git is a bit discouraging.
> To be more pragmatic, svn is what ? 5 commands ?
> $ svn add 
> $ svn remove
> $ svn checkout (once!)
> $ svn commit
> $ svn update
> 
> (ok, svn diff & svn log but for power user).
> 
> With git, the commands become:
> $ git add
> $ git rm
> $ git clone
> $ git commit -a 
> $ git pull
> 

this is a very useful equivalence card. As SVN user of trunk I can
testimony my transition to GIT (used during a couple of day for the
experimental 64 bit branch testing): if you have a minimum support, the
basic operations can be learned during one afternoon.

Anyway, if git is OK for Linus Torvald is OK for me too ;)

Simone Mannori - The Scilab Consortium (DIGITEO)
Scilab/Scicos Embedded Applications