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Achilleas Pipinellis
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Make clear changeset vs snapshot method. Also typos.
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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ control system similar to [SVN](svn.md).
The following list illustrates the main differences between CVS and Git:
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**Git is distributed
**
while
CVS is centralized using a client-server
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**Git is distributed
.**
On the other hand,
CVS is centralized using a client-server
architecture. This translates to Git having a more flexible workflow since
your working area is a copy of the entire repository. This decreases the
overhead when switching branches or merging for example, since you don't have
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whole, or they fail without any changes. In CVS, commits (and other operations)
are not atomic. If an operation on the repository is interrupted in the middle,
the repository can be left in an inconsistent state.
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**Changesets.**
Changes in CVS are per file, while changes (commits) in Git
they always refer to the whole project. One of the consequences of this is that
it is very easy in Git to revert (create a change that undoes) or undo a whole
change.
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**Storage method.**
Changes in CVS are per file (changeset), while in Git
a committed file(s) is stored in its entirety (snapshot). That means that's
very easy in Git to revert or undo a whole change.
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**Revision IDs.**
The fact that in CVS changes are per files, the revision ID
is depicted by version numbers, for example
`1.4`
reflects how many time a
given file has been changed. In Git, each version of a project as a whole
(each commit) has its unique name given by SHA-1.
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**Merge tracking.**
Git uses a commit-before-merge approach rather than
merge-before-commit (or update-then-commit) like CVS. If while you were
preparing to create a new commit (new revision) somebody
other
created a
preparing to create a new commit (new revision) somebody created a
new commit on the same branch and pushed to the central repository, CVS would
force you to first update your working directory and resolve conflicts before
allowing you to commit. This is not the case with Git. You first commit, save
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Migrating to Git/GitLab there is:
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**Shorter learning curve**
, Git has a big community and a vast number of
tutorials to get you started.
tutorials to get you started
(see our
[
Git topic
](
../../../topics/git/index.md
)
)
.
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**Integration with modern tools**
, migrating to Git and GitLab you can have
an open source end-to-end software development platform with built-in version
control, issue tracking, code review, CI/CD, and more.
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