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

[Greg Lindahl]

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.

You are correct that there's a bit of a learning curve to all the
DVCSes.

-- reg