Git resources for svn users

Posted on | March 2, 2010 | No Comments

Many Subversion (svn) users are jumping the wagon to the coolest new kid in the source code management tool block, Git.

Git does provide a lot of improvements over svn, but it can be very unintuitive at times. These two are more different than they are alike, so it’s just wouldn’t work to simply use git while thinking in svn mindsets.

Git is first and foremost, distributed SCM, while svn is a centralized one. When you clone a git repository, you’d get a complete repository, not just a working copy! Since your local copy is a full repository, you’d commit your changes locally too! Only when you need to share your changes to the world would you push to external repository.

A few documents have help me ease the transitional pain. Hope these helps you too: