From: Kevin Ballard Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:27:26 GMT Subject: Re: can subversion 1.6 be made "just as distributed as git"? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Nov 4, 2010, at 2:26 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 01:58, Kevin Ballard 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