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

[Nik Clayton]

Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>>> 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)

... if you[1] choose.  You can, of course, choose what to mirror down to 
single paths.

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[1] des, I assume you know this, I wanted to make the distinction clear 
for others who might not be as familiar with svk.