On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:25:55 -0600, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:

> 	One effect of switching to subversion would be a decrease in flexibility
> wrt what you can get.  Right now you can grab just a portion of the
> repository (e.g. on src/bin/ls), but with subversion you'd be limited to
> the granularity of one of the entire repositories.  i.e., you'd need to
> get all of src, or all of pkgsrc, xsrc, etc...  If we switch to svn we'll need
> to figure out the best way to split the existing repository into individual
> svn repos.

This is possible with svk (which AFAIK uses SVN::Mirror to do this work).
Let's mirror one driver from the complete FreeBSD repository as an
example. BTW most of the changeset-oriented systems mentioned here
wouldn't probably be able to do this - at least that's what I got from
Monotone and Darcs docs, not sure about BitKeeper.

Bye	Pavel

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pavel@pc:~$ svk log /fbsd-test/stg                    
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r34 (orig r138601):  imp | 2005-01-06 00:42:23 +0000

Start each of the license/copyright comments with /*-, minor shuffle of lines

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r33 (orig r129886):  marcel | 2004-07-10 19:14:20 +0000

Update for the KDB framework:
o  Make debugging code conditional upon KDB instead of DDB.

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r32 (orig r127052):  imp | 2004-05-27 01:49:39 +0000

Fix disordering of pccarddevs.h noticed by bde.  Also remove a few
redundant includes and fix some of the include disordering.

Submitted by: bde

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