Even so, I'm going to continue to try to learn Git because of posts like this one. Here are his concluding remarks:
With git, we've invented a new world where revision history, checksums, and branches don't make your filesystem slower: they make it faster. They don't make your data bigger: they make it smaller. They don't risk your data integrity; they guarantee integrity. They don't centralize your data in a big database; they distribute it peer to peer.
Much like Unix itself, git's actual software doesn't matter; it's the file format, the concepts, that change everything.
Whether they're called git or not, some amazing things will come of this.
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I used clearcase. Is Git something on same lines or something truely revolutionary ? thnx
I've used Clearcase before, too. I will let history tell if Git is truly revolutionary, but I will say that it's very different. Maybe after I learn it better, I will write a post comparing it to Clearcase, but at this time, I don't think I could give a good explanation.
There are two big practical differences that are immediately apparent between Clearcase and the Git and Mercurial systems I described above. Clearcase costs a lot of money to buy, and must be installed on a powerful server. Both Git and Mercurial are free software, and they start out by creating a local repository on your workstation. Now that local repository can be synched with another repository on a server, or on team members workstations, but you can use try them out all by yourself without a server.
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