[Rd] SVN vs DVCS

[Hadley Wickham]

On Wednesday, May 26, 2010, Peter Dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo wrote:
>
>> Beside, people working simultaneously on the same files and needing
>> svn to tell them of that? And that happening often? I would hope on
>> better human interaction and work division, rather than svn conflicts
>> checks. But...
>>> [Note: again, this is rather about personal preferences I suspect]
>> indeed.
>
> It actually happens quite often. Sometimes because two people in, say,
> Canada and Oxford fix the same bug report (usually in nearly the same
> way), but more typically because ALL our changes are recorded in the
> same NEWS file.
>
> Besides, SVN conflict are almost always trivial to resolve: Either a
> matter of selecting one of two changes or keeping both.

And that's no more difficult in git or any other dvcs.

Hadley
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