Ask HN: What's your dev teams git multi-environment setup workflow like?

Re:Ask HN: What's your dev teams git multi-environment setup... by Mamady on Wednesday September 29, 2010 @11:29AM (#1739751)

I understand that git is the new hip version control, but if everyone uses it with a 'master' branch... why bother? Why not just use subversion? It defeats the whole purpose of using a distributed version control system.

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Re:Ask HN: What's your dev teams git multi-environment setup... by bnoordhuis on Wednesday September 29, 2010 @01:29PM (#1740239)

Fair question. Two reasons (at least):

1. Git is much, much faster than Subversion. A real-life example: merging two branches with about 2,000 commits worth of changes (~250K lines added, changed or deleted) took over 6 hours with svn but <15 minutes with git. It's not just network overhead, our network is plenty fast.

2. Though you push to a remote master, that doesn't mean you can't branch locally. You can and you should; it makes it easy to work on multiple features simultaneously.

Then there are things like `git stash` and `git archive` that make life just that much better.

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