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Googling your questions and figuring it out does not an interesting article make. I find this a fine counterpoint to people who come to git from other version control systems and baulk when they see it, it's an interesting alternative perspective to the whole "good UI/bad UI" discussion.

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This has little to do with git vs SVN and everything to do with an inflexible and inexperienced know-it-all being incapable of even trying to pick up an older technology. Read through his replies to the comments, it's sad to see really.

You could have replaced the topics of svn and git with C++ vs python or stored procedures vs parameterized queries and it would have been practically identical apart from people would have told him to sod off and grow up instead of changing their process.

That's actually the only positive take away from this article, it is actually really easy to change version control system if you want to.

I must admit I'd love to see the post he'd make after being forced to use MS VSS :)

"This has little to do with git vs SVN and everything to do with an inflexible and inexperienced know-it-all being incapable of even trying to pick up an older technology."

s/older/unfamiliar/

I absolutely agree with that substitution. You can (and I certainly do) see the exact sort of thing going on in the reverse direction with various technologies. I'm guilty of it myself. That's why I find it interesting.

Sometimes it's better to be inflexible.

What's better, a development team full of developers who are flexible enough to use a crappy technology, or inflexible enough to move the product to a superior technology? It depends on moving costs and the difference between technologies, but in some cases I think that inflexibility is better.

A good developer can work with crappy tools and make great things.

Sure. But a good developer can work much freaking better with good tools.

Why should they have to? Why would anyone expect them to do so? The job market is pretty great for good developers right now.

And there's a hell of a lot of bad developers out there.

And you explicitly called out good developers.

"A good developer can work with crappy tools and make great things."

So what exactly is your point here?

The better development team is the one that gets stuff done. That almost always means flexibility.

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