taryneast comments on The 5-Second Level - Less Wrong

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Comment author: taryneast 09 May 2011 08:41:34PM 1 point [-]

Not necessarily true. git and svn are suited to slightly different applications. For one thing - sometimes you want One Source of Truth... which svn gives you, and git does not.

Comment author: sketerpot 10 May 2011 01:40:08AM *  2 points [-]

If you have a central git repository to which all contributors have write privileges, you can treat it a lot like a svn-style centralized VCS that just happens to be git. Is there a significant advantage of svn over this kind of git setup?