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What Hacker News says
- > Things were much simpler with svn.
Not from my experience as a newbie with SVN at the start of uni and in the beginning at $job.
In both cases, it was temperamental, prone to network issues (this was in both student accom. -> uni server, and LAN at $job) and did not like users working on the same files.
Git took some learning, and it took reading Git Magic <http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/> to go from <https://xkcd.com/1597/> to the friend mentioned in the alt text.
SVN still feels like I'm pulling teeth all these years later.
- I'm sitting next to Ben right now, and he's blushing at all the attention. He says he keeps meaning to do a v2.
Anyway, if you really like this, you should consider getting a physical copy: http://www.amazon.com/Git-Magic-Ben-Lynn/dp/1451523343/
- It seems to me that Git's ecosystem is rather more developed than Subversion's, despite its younger age. I haven't seen any hosting service for Subversion repositories that approaches GitHub (and even `gitweb` is pretty nice actually) and the amount of stuff in e.g. http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools is pretty huge compared to what I've seen for SVN.
When it comes to documentation, not only is the reference manual excellent in the usual way of Unix reference manuals, but I also know of six tutorial Git books, several of which are free online: the Git User's Manual, the Git Community Book, Git Magic, Pragmatic Version Control Using Git, Pro Git, and Git Internals.
As I said in another comment (now deleted), I'm using Subversion on a project for the first time in years, and I constantly find myself wishing the project was using Git.
