Which is helpful SVN or Git for Hadoop Development

Question

Most of the hadoop codes are hosted in SVN, when this is the case, how can GIT help for Hadoop Development?

Answer 1

The official location for Hadoop is the Apache SVN repository; Git is also supported, and useful if you want to make lots of local changes -and keep those changes under some form or private or public revision control.

http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToContribute

The official location is now the Apache Git repository.

A lot of people use Git with Hadoop because they have their own patches to make to Hadoop, and Git helps them manage it. Apache serves up read-only Git versions of their source at http://git.apache.org/. People cannot commit changes with Git; for that the patches need to be applied to the SVN repositories.

http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToContribute