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I use Git on my development and I find it to be reliable so I wonder what is the reason Automattic choose to use SVN for WordPress?

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You'll probably get more (and better) answers if you clean up and clarify your question, and your question title. – tnorthcutt Aug 22 '10 at 20:23
Your question isn't really a question, and it seems a bit argumentative at that. -1 for lack of clarity and the fact that your non-question can't really be answered. – EAMann♦ Aug 23 '10 at 0:15
@tnorthcutt : sorry for the tone and stuff. but it's really a curious question. no politic ;D – justjoe Aug 23 '10 at 0:24
I use ClearCase for all my development and it find it reliable so I wonder what is the reason Automattic choose to use svn for WordPress? – edelwater Nov 14 '10 at 1:01
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For reference: in December 2010, there was a very interesting discussion about switching to Git on the wp-hackers mailing list. – Jan Fabry Feb 17 '11 at 16:12

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More then likely it is personal preference. Some people like the workflow introduced by SVN, and some just don't like the distributed model of Git. Some like the way commits, branches, tags etc are handled in one revision control over another.

It could also be that they where using SVN before Git was stable enough and they don't want to go through and switch.

Why fix something that isn't broken?

I really don't think there is a good answer you are going to get on this board, unless someone from Automattic is here. There isn't a right or wrong answer in picking version control systems.

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WordPress moved to Subversion in 2003. Git (as a project) was started in 2005.

Absent Doc Brown's flux capacitor coming to fruition, I think the reasons for SVN over Git are rather obvious.

(Hint: they rhyme with "fistory", "finertia" and "forganizational fomentum")

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That's an objective reason, indeed :) – hakre Mar 18 '11 at 12:49
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This question is hard to answer by me (and probably anybody else), because I did not made that decision. So you must ask the person who decided to use subversion for the wordpress project to find out more in specific. I don't know the name of the person who made the decision, so sorry for not being very helpful.

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it's ok. i came here based on your latest post. thank you for that ;D – justjoe Aug 23 '10 at 19:06

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