Re: video of git talk

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost>]

Eric Gillespie <epg%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:
> Darren Reed <darrenr%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:
>> Both svn and hg suck in that you cannot get a single file or small
>> sub-directory tree out of a repo, you need to get the whole f'ing thing.
>> 
>> This isn't just a workflow thing of being able to checkout src/gnu,
>> but also, for example, being able to do 'cvs checkout sys/sys/param.h'.
>
> If I understand you correctly, this is not true.  You can
> svn checkout from as deeply in the repository as you like,
> e.g. 'svn co .../src/gnu' or 'svn co .../sys/sys'.

You are correct. Darren is wrong here.


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