I would like to share the "opencaching using git" experience we have gained this year.
When moving opencaching.se from the polish code base to the german code base we branched the german svn. We checked out the branch in git and decided to work in git and then merge our work back into svn when we have finished. This was meant as a pilot for testing out if git was a useful tool and would not have happened unless tosubo had administered it from start.
Our experience of this pilot is very interesting. The tool is less user friendly and much more complex to learn than svn, but it is much more powerful and much more suited for casual and multi-branch development than svn. This however comes at a cost.
git is desribed as a distributed version control system, but you could also describe it as a two stage checkin. The checkin is done in a local "version control server". The changeset can then be moved between other "version control servers", for example one that is public and acts as master.
The extra work involved working with git is that after checkin you need to push your changesets to "the master" and to get access to others work, you need to fetch it from "the master" and merge it into your own local "version control server".
After learning a few basic concepts this actually works very, very good. Sending around changesets and merging them works like magic.
The plan was to terminate the git-pilot and merge our changes into the german master svn, but lately we have started to think of switching to git also for the german source. If that is the descision then we need to create a group and configure a new master for this.
