Re: video of git talk

[Eric Gillespie <epg%pretzelnet.org@localhost>]

Darren Reed <darrenr%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:

> 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.)

Let's get concrete:

0 tmp% svn ls http://svn.freebsd.org/base
ROADMAP.txt
[...]
0 tmp% svn co http://svn.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/sys
A    sys/dtrace_bsd.h
[...]
Checked out revision 182874.

> 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.

*shrug*

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Eric Gillespie <*> epg%pretzelnet.org@localhost