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Re: time to be serious about dropping CVS
>>>>> "Pascal" == Pascal Obry <obry@adacore.com> writes:
Pascal> Just to note that Git has support for partial checkout.
Nice -- new in 1.7:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-read-tree.html#_sparse_checkout
Pascal> As it is a common misconception I'd like to mention that Git
Pascal> support /partial checkout/ and NOT /partial fetch/. That is, the
Pascal> whole repository is fetched and you can just checkout the part
Pascal> that you want to work on. This is hardly a problem as the
Pascal> network support in Git is very efficient.
Perhaps some people will be concerned about the disk space.
(Though I am not.)
I looked through CVSROOT/modules a little. I think it would be good if
we could split some of the modules off into their own repositories.
However, I don't know what in there is active or even what projects
would not mind being split off.
Tom