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

[Will Ashford]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Greg Lindahl <lindahl at pbm.com> 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.
>

Depends on what you mean by partial checkout. If you mean checking out
only a portion of a repository, Mercurial (at least) supports that. If
you mean checking out only a portion of the revision history for a
given subdirectory, no it does not support that. On the other hand
that only matters if you routinely overwrite all data instead of
adding (which tends to be the case with binary formats like pictures,
movies, etc).

Will