[svlug] Need advice/help managing documents - Subversion? GIT?

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:55:17 -0700 Greg Lindahl wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 08:06:20PM -0700, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> 
> > Someone else recommended Mercurial: I've never used it myself, but
> > its usage model is similar to git.  Not sure how well it supports
> > partial checkouts, though.
> 
> It doesn't. But I'd still use a DVCS for what OP described; you get
> distributed backups for free.

True, but a simple 'svnadmin dump | bzip2' cron job on your server
to back up the repo to another machine gets you backups.  Not free,
and not distributed, but pretty easy.

	-brian