GitSvnComparison From Git SCM Wiki Jump to: navigation , search start content Note: This page is currently a work in progress. It started out as a private email to someone who currently uses Subversion. I decided to make it available and try to extend it further. I'll remove this comment when the page is improved.  :) -- Shawn Pearce See the discussion page for further comments Although this page is hosted on a Git-specific Wiki it tries to provide a fair and unbiased comparison of Git and Subversion to help prospective users of both tools better evaluate their choices. This page only describes base Subversion and does not discuss the benefits and drawbacks to using SVK , a distributed wrapper around Subversion. It also does not discuss using Git as subversion client . A summary of differences Git is much faster than Subversion Subversion allows you to check out ju...