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

From: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Date: Nov 4, 2010, 00:58 UTC
Message-ID: <BF8EE51A-AFE4-4EBA-82E8-4A8B32678FBF@sb.org>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20101104T014408-903@post.gmane.org>

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.

-Kevin Ballard

On Nov 3, 2010, at 5:45 PM, MDellerus wrote:

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> I have a co-worker who has suggested that, using "svnadmin hotcopy", subversion 
> can be
>    just as "distributed" a system as Git
> 
> While I see how this can be done, it hardly seems to me to qualify as "just as", 
> making this "plausible" at best.
> 
> Can anyone give me a quick confirmation of this?  Confirmed? Plausible? Busted?
> 
> If this is confirmed or plausible, could someone give me a quick run-down?
> 
> (I would appreciate a response, no matter how long it takes, but I do have a 
> meeting with this co-worker in another 16 hours... (10am Pacific).)
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> (FYI - I have cross-posted this, just once, to an SVN forum, in the event they 
> might have a different opinion.)
> 
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