Migration from SVN to Git

SVN has been used by RichBrains’ tech leaders and developers for over 3 years now and proved itself to be quite a good version control system to handle projects of any size.

However, recently RichBrains development team has decided to switch to Git. It was mainly team’s motivation that played a considerable role in starting work with Git, as it has matured a lot since its first creation.

Thus, we chose Git due to a number of its obvious advantages:

• It’s distributed: Git allows developers to commit issues even when they are not online and have a full change history.
• Easy branching and merging: Git supports rapid branching and merging and has robust tools to navigate through non-linear development history.
• Speed and scalability: Git perfectly handles big-sized projects with long history, and it’s faster than many other version control systems.
• Attractive and extremely user-friendly toolkit design.

It took the development team 1 day to move all projects to Git. The biggest pitfall was inconsistent usage of branches/tags/trunk comparing to “standard” SVN structure, so to write a simple script wasn’t enough to make the conversions.

So, as for now, Git cannot be considered a SVN substitution. It’s neither better nor worse; it’s just a different system with its unique functions, which can be considered as a reason for its usage.To stay informed about the latest company news, keep track of the updates in our press-room.