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Steven Rostedt

Today marks the day I officially converted my internal C and bin directories over to git from subversion. I have a set of personal tools I use (or just to test how things work) that I’ve kept in subversion.

Why?

Because the central repository was perfect for it. I did not care about distributed environment. I would always commit back to the central authority.

Why did I change?

Well, I do modify the code from different machines here and there, and I finally hit a merge conflict that is pretty much impossible to solve with subversion. Which caused me a couple of hours to get it back to a working state as subversion makes it very difficult to resolve nasty conflicts.

Thank God for git svn as I needed to maintain the history as well.

Oh well, Goodbye subversion. It was fun while it lasted.

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