On Apr 29, 2011, at 12:07 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote:

>> Subversion was the source control system to use ten years ago. It is still as good as

>> it ever was, but there are better choices these days. Starting fresh today, I'd pick

>> Mercurial or Git.

>

> Why do you like these over Subversion?

With git, you can make multiple local commits - I sometimes do dozens a day. This is great for both when you want to try something out and be able to recover easily, as well as for when you screw things up and need to get back to a known good state.

Since Dabo uses a Subversion repo, I can't commit to it without affecting everyone else, so I use git locally when working, and when I'm confident in my changes, I commit to Subversion. Were Dabo to move to GitHub for its repo, I would work the same locally, and then instead of a running 'svn commit', I'd do a 'git push' to push my changes to github.

-- Ed Leafe

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