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Re: can subversion 1.6 be made "just as distributed as git"?

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 4, 2010, 09:26 UTC
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On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 01:58, Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> wrote:
> Using "svnadmin hotcopy" you could certainly get your own local repo, but I fail to
> see how you could easily join your history up with someone else's history using this
> mechanism. If you really want to use SVN in a distributed manner, I would recommend
> you simply use SVK.

SVK gives you *disconnected* SVN, not distributed. You still can't (easily) share your uncommited revisions with others. It just solves the problem of you being on a plane for a few hours. It doesn't turn SVN into Git.

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