Re: Git User's Survey 2008 partial summary, part 5 - other SCM

> On Sun, 14 Sep 2008, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
>> On 9/12/08, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>  15) Do you miss features in git that you know from other SCMs?
>>>     If yes, what features are these (and from which SCM)?
>>>     (Open ended text - Essay)
>>>
>>>  Total respondents       1046 (some/many of them wrote 'no')
>>>  skipped this question   1249
>>>
>>>  This is just a very quick summary, based on a first few pages of
>>>  responses, Full analysis is I think best left for after closing the
>>>  survey, because I think this would be a lot of work...
>>>
>>>  So here is preliminary list, or rather beginning of one:
>>>   * sparse/partial checkout and clone (e.g. Perforce)
>>
>> Have not read the survey result, but do you recall what is the most
>> used term for sparse/partial checkout? What SCMs do sparse/partial
>> checkout? I think it could be usable as it is now in my
>> will-be-sent-again series, but I don't really know how people want it
>> to from that.
> 
> the most common use-case is people who want to follow a project but
> (at least think that they) don't need the history. so they want to
> save time/bandwideth/disk space by not downloading things they don't
> need.