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Git brings different things to different people.

For me the largest advantage of Git was being able to easily switch branches. Previously I'd have to have multiple copies of an entire source repo on my machine if I wanted to work on multiple things at the same time. Likewise a patch set going through CR meant an entire folder on my machine was frozen until I got feed back.

Not having to email complex patches was another huge plus. I was at Microsoft at the time and they had home made scripts (probably Perl or VBS, but I forget what) that applied patches to a repo.

It sucked.

Git branch alone was worth the cost of changing over.





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