Why hackers moved from Subversion to Git
1 hacker described this switch in public comments. Their words, with links to the originals.
What hackers said about the move
“But then we moved to git and only stuff that had a designated owner got moved from cvs/svn to git”Macha, 2026-09-29original comment ↗
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Subversion vs Git
| Subversion | Git | |
|---|---|---|
| Hackers who recommend | 3 | 6 |
| Hackers who criticize | 0 | 4 |
| Moved away from it | 1 | 2 |
| Moved to it | 3 | 2 |
Counts are distinct hackers in the sampled comments, not market share.
Criticism of Subversion
No further criticism of Subversion captured yet.
Praise for Git
“Instead of using an elegant mechanism, project have built inelegant wrappers on top of git like go.mod which are actual mistakes.”purpleidea, 2026-10-01original comment ↗
“Git hardly ever gets in my way, I have never had to do complex octopus merges or anything like that.”umvi, 2026-09-01original comment ↗
“It then fails if you try to overwrite commits that you haven't seen, and has saved me a few times when working between computers on the same project”acallaghan, 2026-06-01original comment ↗
“This appealed greatly to us, and always meant that it is effortless to undo any operation because it only creates new snapshots”pitkali, 2026-05-18original comment ↗
“with git + RFC3161 attestation of commits, I can prove I made additions when I said I made them”epistasis, 2026-04-25original comment ↗
Other moves from Subversion
Other moves to Git
- CVS → Git (1)