Re: [tlug] Great Git resources

[Edward Middleton <edward.middleton@example.com>]

Raymond Wan wrote:
> Theriault wrote:
> > I've just recently started getting into Git and have found a few
> > references that I've found to be great help in my exploration of it.
>
> ... can you explain why you are using Git as opposed to
> (say) Subversion? ...
>
> ... Git seems to me like just a
> "different" way of doing things; not necessarily better...
>
> Any thoughts by you or anyone else?

We use git in mostly the same way you would use subversion (i.e. 
centralized master server).  The benefits that stand out to me are.

- being able to pulling changes from multiple sources

- being able to store locally a set of changes before pushing to the master.

- history rewriting to cleanup a set of changes before pushing them.

Edward