{"id":1713,"date":"2008-04-25T09:51:19","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T13:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2008-04-25T09:51:22","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T13:51:22","slug":"svn-mercurial-git","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/25\/svn-mercurial-git\/","title":{"rendered":"SVN vs. Mercurial vs. Git For Managing Your Home Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joshcarter.com\/productivity\/svn_hg_git_for_home_directory\">Josh Carter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/joshcarter.com\/productivity\/svn_hg_git_for_home_directory\">\n<p>For several years I&rsquo;ve kept the bulk of my home directory in a revision control system. This allows me to synchronize my files across the two machines I use commonly, keep a backup on my home NAS box, and have complete revision history of files.\n<\/p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s a price, however: the SCM keeps metadata on my machines, and this can add up. Plus there&rsquo;s the time needed to commit files. When it became clear I needed to switch away from Subversion because it doesn&rsquo;t cooperate with iWork files, I decided to look into alternatives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This type of setup is much easier when the VCS doesn&rsquo;t litter the filesystem with invisible folders. <tt>git gc<\/tt> is usually overkill; I would have liked to see numbers for <tt>git repack; git prune<\/tt>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Carter: For several years I&rsquo;ve kept the bulk of my home directory in a revision control system. This allows me to synchronize my files across the two machines I use commonly, keep a backup on my home NAS box, and have complete revision history of files. There&rsquo;s a price, however: the SCM keeps metadata [&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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","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=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}