On Mar 20, 2012, at 8:40 PM, Edward Diener <eldiener@tropicsoft.com> wrote:

I have never heard a single technical argument, in all the endless mentions of Git among the people riding that bandwagon, why Git is better than SVN, or even why any DVCS is better than a centralized SCCS. I consider this whole move to Git and/or DVCS among "hip" programmers little more than a move to conform with what others are doing and feel "cool".

I am perfectly willing to read well-chosen technical arguments but not from people already sold on one side or the other. But I really despair of anyone being able to present such arguments in the atmosphere created by Git fanatics and DVCS fanatics. The only thing I have gotten from all this is "I've tried it, I like it, and therefore its superior".

Feel free, anyone, to point me to a purely technical discussion, article, whatnot, explaining the practical reasons why using a DVCS, or Git, is more productive and more pleasurable than using a centralized SCCS like Subversion.

For what it’s worth, here is a series of articles that sold me on DVCS (and Mercurial in particular, though that’s neither here nor there) after spending quite some time wondering whether to bother: <http://hginit.com/> It’s a typically breezy Joel Spolsky piece, but it does cover use cases nicely. Steve