Re: video of git talk

[Darren Reed <darrenr%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Eric Gillespie wrote:
> 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'.  It's true
> that you can't checkout param.h only, but if you can get just the
> directory, is that not good enough?
>   

At least with FreeBSD, my recollection was that this didn't work
until you had pulled a complete copy of the repository over to be
local to you - which defeats the purpose of the restricted tree
checkout (I don't want to wait for 1.5GB of source to d/l.)

And no, forcing me to get an entire directory when I want a single
file isn't always good enough...especially if said directory has many
many files.

Darren