Subversion? (Re: HEADS UP: Importing csup into base)

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Ollivier Robert <roberto at keltia.freenix.fr> writes:
> According to Peter Wemm:
> > 1) It has fairly good detached operation modes.  You can do logs, diffs,
> > reverts, etc while detached.  It does this by keeping metadata and a
> > small number of revisions cached locally.
> In my opinion, it is not enough.  You can't svn commit on a detached mode.
> You can't work as if you were connected, commit several csets, go back one
> and so on.  That's too limiting.

you can if you're using svk as client.

> > 5) And this is the kicker..  most client metadata is kept on the client!
> > This is the very reason why we cannot use perforce for freebsd.org for
> > everybody.  The number of checkouts is way too large.  svn keeps most
> > of this on the client, so this scales easily with more clients.
> Including a full copy of all files and more metadata.

not if you use svk (on the other hand, it keeps a full copy of the repo)

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