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Re:Why You Should Switch from Subversion to Git by warp on Wednesday September 16, 2009 @02:43PM (#826516)
Here is an example from my experience:

Sometimes when I'm developing, and ready to commit something I notice I've made a few unrelated changes/bugfixes. I could just commit the whole thing at once, but that makes merging a hassle because I probably want to merge those bugfixes to trunk much sooner than any code which implements a new feature. So, I would need some way to commit only certain diff chunks from each file.

I understand from "http://www.gitcasts.com/posts/interactive-adding that git can do that. So far it hasn't been incentive enough to switch, but it's one example of the pain of subversion.

Re:Why You Should Switch from Subversion to Git by FooBarWidget on Wednesday September 16, 2009 @08:36PM (#827171)
Try 'git add -p', it's a lot easier than interactive mode.