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The Rise of Git

Posted by Soulskill on from the git-on-up dept.

snydeq writes "InfoWorld takes a look at the rise of Git, the use of which has increased sixfold in the past three years. Buoyed in large part by interest among the Ruby community and younger developers, Git has been gaining share for open source development largely because of its distributed architecture, analysts note. And the version control system stands to gain further traction on Subversion in the years ahead, as Eclipse is making Git its preferred version control system, a move inspired by developers and members."

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  1. Data, Images, Binary builds etc. by syousef · · Score: 4, Informative

    Exactly who the fuck has 50GB in one source code tree?

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    Those who store data, images, other binaries like built executables and other artifacts alongside the code.

    You can argue that you shouldn't do that, but there are times when it's difficult to avoid, and if you need to be able to keep versions, it can be done easily with something like SVN.

    I think GIT has it's advantages, but to reject all predcessors and raise it up as the only way to go is foolish.

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  2. Re:It's because by buchner.johannes · · Score: 5, Informative

    see "git clone --depth"

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