Git vs. SVN

DISTRIBUTED vs. CENTRALIZED

• Git is distributed
• SVN is centralized versioning system.

AVAILABILITY

• If you cannot reach SVN server, you cannot commit the code.
• In Git, local copy on your system is the repository and you can commit to it - Local Source Control

COMPLEXITY

• Git is complex to use : 
• "git clone" provides checkout of repository code
• "git checkout" switches the branch
• "git commit" commits teh code locally
• SVN is much simpler to learn

FAST

• Git is faster than SVN

USAGE
Git is preferred :  

• When developers do not commit to master repository too often.
• need better support for merging and branching.
• for Open source projects
• Fork the project for yourself
• Commit the changes to your Fork
• Ask the project owner to pull your changes