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Discussion on: Why Git instead of SVN

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Patrick Minton • Edited

The last time I had to use SVN was about 10 years ago, but I remember that I had merge conflicts that I needed to resolve ALL THE DAMN TIME, and with git I encounter them rarely (when two folks touch the same line). Git just knows how to merge things.

And the learning curve isn’t bad; there are dozens of svn-to-git tutorials. In fact I’d be very wary about the productivity of any developer who has a really hard time learning the basics.