{"id":1648,"date":"2008-01-02T11:21:43","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T15:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/02\/why-i-chose-git\/"},"modified":"2008-08-23T14:47:18","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T18:47:18","slug":"why-i-chose-git","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/02\/why-i-chose-git\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Chose Git"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/plasmasturm.org\/log\/487\/\">Aristotle Pagaltzis<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.diveintomark.org\">Mark Pilgrim<\/a>):<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/plasmasturm.org\/log\/487\/\">\r\n<p>And between the two, git has <a href=\"http:\/\/keithp.com\/blogs\/Repository_Formats_Matter\/\" title=\"Keith Packard: Repository Formats Matter\">the better repository format<\/a>&mdash;it&rsquo;s much more robust (designed to make changes inherently atomic) and despite all this, is simpler than the repo format of any other <abbr title=\"Version Control System\">VCS<\/abbr>. It&rsquo;s also efficient&mdash;an entire repository with all of the project history will often take less space than a Subversion checkout. (But git needs periodic, manually-initiated vacuuming, say every couple of weeks or so, else it will grow as you work; Mercurial&rsquo;s repo format is slightly more efficient and it doesn&rsquo;t have that issue. But it&rsquo;s not inherently robust, and observing a repository while changes are under way will reveal inconsistent data.)<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aristotle Pagaltzis (via Mark Pilgrim): And between the two, git has the better repository format&mdash;it&rsquo;s much more robust (designed to make changes inherently atomic) and despite all this, is simpler than the repo format of any other VCS. It&rsquo;s also efficient&mdash;an entire repository with all of the project history will often take less space than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}