Re: git copies of cvs modules available

[Thomas Adam <thomas.adam22%gmail.com@localhost>]

2009/11/13 Curt Sampson <cjs%netbsd.org@localhost>:
> One case is doing doing a single checkout of HEAD, where a git clone

You could do a --shallow clone here, but that's by-the-by.  The
history is really important.

> The other, and even bigger case is partitial checkouts. Subversion will
> let you check out just src/bin/cat, and our build system will let you
> build it standing alone. Git does not do this and possibly never will.

Umm, that's not true.  There's sparse-checkout support for Git which
is currently being worked on.

-- Thomas Adam