由于它不需要不断地与中央服务器通信，几乎每个命令都在不到一秒的时间内运行(显然git的push/pull/fetch较慢，因为它们必须初始化SSH连接)。分支要容易得多(一个简单的命令就可以分支，一个简单的命令就可以合并)

SubVersion最让我恼火的一点是它把自己的文件夹放在项目的每个目录中，而git只把一个文件夹放在根目录中。这不是什么大事，但这样的小事积少成多。

当然，SubVersion有Tortoise，它(通常)非常好。

对于那些正在寻找一个好的Git GUI的人来说，Syntevo SmartGit可能是一个很好的解决方案。它是私有的，但对非商业用途是免费的，可以在Windows/Mac/Linux上运行，我认为甚至可以使用某种git-svn网桥来支持SVN。

“为什么Git比X好”概述了Git相对于其他scm的各种优缺点。

简要:

Git tracks content rather than files Branches are lightweight and merging is easy, and I mean really easy. It's distributed, basically every repository is a branch. It's much easier to develop concurrently and collaboratively than with Subversion, in my opinion. It also makes offline development possible. It doesn't impose any workflow, as seen on the above linked website, there are many workflows possible with Git. A Subversion-style workflow is easily mimicked. Git repositories are much smaller in file size than Subversion repositories. There's only one ".git" directory, as opposed to dozens of ".svn" repositories (note Subversion 1.7 and higher now uses a single directory like Git.) The staging area is awesome, it allows you to see the changes you will commit, commit partial changes and do various other stuff. Stashing is invaluable when you do "chaotic" development, or simply want to fix a bug while you're still working on something else (on a different branch). You can rewrite history, which is great for preparing patch sets and fixing your mistakes (before you publish the commits) … and a lot more.

有一些缺点:

There aren't many good GUIs for it yet. It's new and Subversion has been around for a lot longer, so this is natural as there are a few interfaces in development. Some good ones include TortoiseGit and GitHub for Mac. Partial checkouts/clones of repositories are not possible at the moment (I read that it's in development). However, there is submodule support. Git 1.7+ supports sparse checkouts. It might be harder to learn, even though I did not find this to be the case (about a year ago). Git has recently improved its interface and is quite user friendly.

在最简单的用法中，Subversion和Git是差不多的。两者之间没有太大区别:

svn checkout svn://foo.com/bar bar
cd bar
# edit
svn commit -m "foo"

and

git clone git@github.com:foo/bar.git
cd bar
# edit
git commit -a -m "foo"
git push

Git真正的亮点在于分支和与其他人一起工作。

Easy Git有一个很好的页面，比较了Git和SVN的实际使用情况，这将让你了解Git可以做什么(或更容易做什么)。(从技术上讲，这是基于Easy Git的，它是Git之上的轻量级包装器。)

由于它不需要不断地与中央服务器通信，几乎每个命令都在不到一秒的时间内运行(显然git的push/pull/fetch较慢，因为它们必须初始化SSH连接)。分支要容易得多(一个简单的命令就可以分支，一个简单的命令就可以合并)