<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>But svn is easier to use for non-coders. </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Maybe take a look at:</div><div><a href="http://whygitisbetterthanx.com">http://whygitisbetterthanx.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>Honestly I'm not a fanboy, git truly is better than svn in most cases and it's a useful skill-set to have.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>How do you determine the version/revision of the git source ?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Revisions: Git doesn't use incremental commit numbers, every commit has a unique SHA1 sum.</div><div>Versions: Most people use tags to mark an important milestone in Git.</div><div><br></div><div>If you take a look at the commit log for a particular branch, it's usually pretty clear whats going on:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/commits/fixes/0.23">https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/commits/fixes/0.23</a></div><div><br></div><div>And if you want to checkout a particular commit:</div><div><br></div><div>git checkout c548468c45f14df050e75696345966f8375df26c</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Is there any obvious relationship between the git & svn<br>revisions/commits.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Don't think so. Could be wrong though.</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>I imagine any svn source will be a direct copy from git.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Depends how the MythTV devs have decided to do it.</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>