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Re:Why GitHub Won by bluGill on Monday September 09, 2024 @02:04PM (#41491470)
SVN's model is what everyone is using. Sure you git, but almost nobody is using the distributed parts - they all sync to a central sever (github). SVN just could get user management, or merges right - those should be solvable problems but somehow were not. (I don't know enough about SVN to speculate on why they didn't)
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Re:Why GitHub Won by rswail on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @03:22AM (#41498077)
The main reason is that SVN's model of branching/tagging is based on directories in the working directory, whereas git's model (and to a certain extent, commercial SVNs like Clearcase and Perforce) is that branching/tagging is of the entire repository and not related to the file tree structure.

This is a fundamental difference and the reason that git's model works much better when branching/merging.

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