Git … my favorite vcs
After having used CVS, Subversion, and Perforce, I’ve recently been using Git for all of my version control. The two things I like about above the others mentioned are its speed and trivial and intuitive branching. Though I can’t say I was ever a fan of CVS branches, I always found that the subversion/perforce approach of just creating another directory when you want to branch to somewhat ignore the semantics of being a branch. Why shouldn’t every version be a new directory? Obviously that would get cluttered and confusing. Why would you not expect the same of branches? Yes, I understand that directory copying is cheap in Subversion and Perforce, and I understand they do preserve history, but I expect branches to split and merge and though directories do represent the splitting very well, they unfortunately don’t represent the concept of a merge very well. Git on the otherhand, has explicit branches that are separate from the concept of a directory. Plus, it has many powerful tools for managing those branches, not to mention GitHub.