Re: GIT vs Other: Need argument

On 4/17/07, Andy Parkins [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tuesday 2007, April 17, Guilhem Bonnefille wrote:

quoted

I'm new to Git, but completly crazy of it.

In my point of view, in corporate team, lot of people does not
want/need the power offered by Git.
So, my conclusion is the better model in a corporate is a centralyzed
repo with some users using Git as "frontend". Other people will
simply use the native tools for accessing the repo.

Git has you covered there - it works better than other version control
systems for that model too.  I do it all the time; the only difference
is that with git it's not the tool doesn't force the choice on you.

If you want a central repo, just make one - designate one repository as
central, put it in the .git/config file for each of the others and away
you go.  Pretend it's centralised if you want; you and your colleagues
need never know otherwise.

In fact, the most important problem (in my case) is that there are
people that really don't want/need Git features. These people consider
that CVS/SVN are constraints and not usefull tools. They are not
interested in what a VCS can offer. I have success with CVS/SVN
because we now use Eclipse which offers an easy to use GUI for CVS/SVN
actions.
An other point is that CVS/SVN actions for our developers are
"trivial": update or commit, nothing more (even tags are made by
"power" users, so working with branches...). With Git, you have to
ALWAYS remember that you have a repo locally which is different than
the central repo. I think this point is quite confusing for people not
interested in the features offered by having a "private" repo.

This is why I think my corporate friends will brake if I try to
propose Git for everybody.

In my mind, git-svn or even git-svnserve, are THE tools to introduce
Git in teams not convinced by the power of DVCS. Or perhaps someone
will create a porcelain that offers the same simple interface of
CVS/SVN and will integrate it in all the fantastic IDE ;-)
-- 
Guilhem BONNEFILLE
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