On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 21:18:26 +0800 Ray Rashif <schivmeister@gmail.com> wrote:
On 07/03/2010, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:
Am Sonntag, 7. März 2010 12:03:08 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:
2) svn->git migration is not trivial, since tools, the website, .. will need to be adapted.
The problem is that our current repo layout and workflow is not mappable to git. E.g. we use svn's feature to checkout specific dirs/files etc..
But I guess if someone would come up with a superior solution using git we would be quite happy.
Sparseness is a complicated matter in git: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-read-tree.html#_sparse_c...
And we need that the most.
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hmm.. it doesn't look _that_ hard: http://vmiklos.hu/blog/sparse-checkout-example-in-git-1-7 Btw, re: my con 1 (disk space needed for history), one could use git clone --depth if one only wants recent history. (though i don't think this will be an issue at all in practice) Dieter