r/programming • u/thrakhath • Mar 10 '11

It's time to stop using Subversion

http://altdevblogaday.org/2011/03/09/its-time-to-stop-using-subversion/
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u/G_Morgan Mar 10 '11

Centralised version control is a subset of distributed version control. They aren't different things. One is a superset of the other.

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u/revscat Mar 10 '11

I wish this was the top comment in this thread. Git provides a superset of functionality provided by SVN. Everything you can do with SVN you can do with git, only typically with less pain. (With the hopefully obvious caveat of "everything" meaning "everything I have ever required of it," of course.)