Comment by djaouen
2 days ago
I remember when a startup I used to work for made the transition from svn to git. They transitioned, then threw the guy who suggested the transition under the bus; he quit, and then the company collapsed. Lol!
2 days ago
I remember when a startup I used to work for made the transition from svn to git. They transitioned, then threw the guy who suggested the transition under the bus; he quit, and then the company collapsed. Lol!
I was hired at a small startup (~15 employees total) and one of the first things I did was to migrate their SVN repository to Git. Not too difficult, brought over the history and then had to write a bunch of tooling to handle the fact that not all of the source code was in one giant heirarchy anymore (since everything was microservices and self-contained libraries it made sense to split them out).
After I left that company I ended up at a larger company (~14k employees) in part because I'd worked on SVN-to-Git migrations before. Definitely a different beast, since there were a huge amount of workflows that needed changing, importing 10 years of SVN history (some of which used to be CVS history), pruning out VM images and ISOs that had been inadvertently added, rewriting tons of code in their Jenkins instance, etc.
All this on top of installing, configuring, and managing a geographically distributed internal Gitlab instance with multiple repositories in the tens or hundreds of gigabytes.
It was a heck of a ride and took years, but it was a lot of fun at the same time. Thankfully 'the guy who suggested the transition' was the CEO (in the first company) or CTO (in the second) nothing went wrong, no one got thrown under buses, and both companies are still doing a-okay (as far as source control goes).
git is a skill check on learning tools to get a job done
git is actually a case-study in "Worse Is Better". hg beats it in every way, except pure speed. Of course, git is still way better than svn, tho.
The way Git took over wasn't Git vs Mercurial (although that was a small part of it), but much more Git vs SVN, CVS, and people that never used source control before. It's similar to how Chrome became the dominant browser over Firefox. It was much more converts from Internet Explorer and Safari than advanced users that were already on Firefox.
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