I wish the author would've explained the motivation to move from SVN to Git, other than 'it was winning over the web'. Was SVN just not working for them, for some reason? Are there things that he and him company wanted to do that wasn't possible with SVN, but was with Git?
Quite frankly there's no more reason for "why we moved from SVN to Git" topics anymore. It's been beat to death.
Better to keep up while the team is small than to try to move even more people over later and turn into mega-corp still using CVS.
Learning something new isn't necessarily a bad thing. I question people that are unable to try to learn something new every day. It takes a few minutes of your time and you can learn something. Sure, git might take more than a few minutes… but why not TRY?
As for requesting why they switched from subversion to git… yea, as I said, you have a billion articles written out there by now about WHY. There aren't more needed. The benefits are pretty clear if you read any one of those other articles.
Of course, this more leads into "why git and not mercurial (or any other DVCS)?" Which again, has a billion other articles written up on it.
Part of it was that SVN was the last service running on a server I wanted to shut down. The other part was simply momentum. Github (and therefore Git) were too exciting to not want to be a part of. I didn't want to be left behind. That said, SVN was perfectly serviceable, though I don't imagine I'll ever use it again.
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I wish the author would've explained the motivation to move from SVN to Git, other than 'it was winning over the web'. Was SVN just not working for them, for some reason? Are there things that he and him company wanted to do that wasn't possible with SVN, but was with Git?
Quite frankly there's no more reason for "why we moved from SVN to Git" topics anymore. It's been beat to death.
Better to keep up while the team is small than to try to move even more people over later and turn into mega-corp still using CVS.
Learning something new isn't necessarily a bad thing. I question people that are unable to try to learn something new every day. It takes a few minutes of your time and you can learn something. Sure, git might take more than a few minutes… but why not TRY?
As for requesting why they switched from subversion to git… yea, as I said, you have a billion articles written out there by now about WHY. There aren't more needed. The benefits are pretty clear if you read any one of those other articles.
Of course, this more leads into "why git and not mercurial (or any other DVCS)?" Which again, has a billion other articles written up on it.
Part of it was that SVN was the last service running on a server I wanted to shut down. The other part was simply momentum. Github (and therefore Git) were too exciting to not want to be a part of. I didn't want to be left behind. That said, SVN was perfectly serviceable, though I don't imagine I'll ever use it again.