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

From: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Date: Nov 4, 2010, 09:27 UTC
Message-ID: <EE766BAE-E930-46EB-BB89-FE83C7597169@sb.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim0N99M488k3vR5zVDkZv7Wz-08hRwdy0jaHh4c@mail.gmail.com>

On Nov 4, 2010, at 2:26 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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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.

SVK bills itself as providing distributed patches, and calls itself "A Distributed Version Control System". I do agree that it's mainly useful for using SVN in a disconnected mode, but I trust that there's at least some facility for sharing local branches with other SVK users, though I've certainly never done that myself.

-Kevin Ballard