title: Why are so many opensource projects moving from SVN To git?
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/871/why-is-git-better-than-subversion">Why is Git better than Subversion?</a>  </p>
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  <p>I follow a number of different open source projects, mainly around Java technology, but this question is probably universal. I have noticed over the last 6 months or so that many projects are moving Way from subversion and moving to git.</p>
  
  <p>My question is why? What are the advantages of git over subversion, and do these advantages lend themselves to a commercial world (I.e should i be looking to replace my cvs and svn repositories with git)? </p>