[svlug] Need advice/help managing documents - Subversion? GIT?

[Chris Miller]

On Oct 16, 2008, at 3:58 PM, Will Ashford wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In terms of version control I've had a good experience using Mercurial
> which is very similar to Git (disclaimer: I haven't used Git). I feel
> it is better than Subversion in the scenario you mention because svn
> connects back to the central server for most (all?) actions and
> Mercurial only does so for manual syncs. Mercurial also supports http
> and https transports. TortoiseHg is the windows client for Mercurial.

Absolutely correct.  This scenario is much better solved by Git/Hg  
than Subversion.  Most graphical scm clients suck really bad (I tried  
most of 'em) so don't worry about how pretty the buttons are.

You might also consider Bazaar (bzr).

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