Git and the Tangled Working Copy Problem
Hackers that know me personally may have noticed my praising of Git. Today, I came across an article talking about what the author calls the Tangled Working Copy Problem, and how git copes with it. The article is a good read, regardless of your source code management taste.
Aside from highlighting some useful features that are afforded by distributed VCSs, the article also exposes how weak Subversion can sometimes be, no matter how magnificent it may seem compared to CVS.
If you haven’t made the leap and embraced the distributed VCS model, I highly recommend at least trying it. Git, Mercurial, Bazaar, whatever: just pick one up, and do some development with it. You may never go back to subversion again.
Tags: git, programming