Re: Git User's Survey 2008 partial summary, part 5 - other SCM
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- Sep 15, 2008, 03:39 UTC
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On Sun, 14 Sep 2008, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
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> 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.
David Lang