On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 6:08 PM, John Maddock
* I happen to like the fact that SVN stores things *not on my hard drive*, it means I just don't have to worry about what happens if my laptop goes belly up, gets lost, stolen, dropped, or heaven forbid "coffeed". On the other hand the "instant" commits and version history from a local copy would be nice...
Sorry but I don't like that actually. Servers (here the boost repository) are also likely to crash/burn whatever (oh and yes there are backups but... I've seen backup destroyed before). So here it is what happen with git : your laptop dies, the main repository dies? That's not really important as thousands of user all over the world have copies of this repo. That's much more safe than just one central server. (actually that could be compared to thousands of backups).