elego Software Solutions

Title of the presentation: Comparing Apples to Oranges: Subversion, Git, and Mercurial

Level: Advanced

Date and time: Wednesday, 28th of October 2009, 03:05pm - 03:50pm

Room: Madrid

Abstract: This talk will provide a comparison of Subversion to Git and Mercurial.

Like Subversion, Git and Mercurial are mature, freely available, and Open Source version control systems. All three tools share a lot of their favourable aspects, while at the same time differing from one another in various ways.

This talk attempts to explain and compare the basic technical concepts of the versioning models used by these tools, advantages and limitations which arise from these concepts, as well as taking a look at factors important for every-day usage such as tool support, distributed development, authorization, and usability.

Stefan Sperling has studied computer science at Free University of Berlin, Germany, and University College Cork, Ireland. He has been working with elego for many years. Since the beginning of 2007 he has been contributing to the Subversion project and became a full committer for the project in early 2008.

Stephen Butler has worked for software companies in the USA and Europe, mainly in the telecom industry, with a personal focus on configuration management and software process improvement. In 2007 he joined elego Software Solutions, helping software teams in many companies to migrate to Subversion. He's been a committer to the Subversion project since 2008.