Long time Subversion shop 37signals is migrating their code management from SVN to GIT. GIT is a code management system originally developed by Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system.
Jamis writes about why they’re making the switch to GIT and says:
Branching and merging in Subversion are painful. If you’ve never used it, you don’t know what I mean. If you have, you do. Branching and merging in git, though, are wonderfully, blissfully straightforward.
Check it out over at the Signal vs. Noise blog.