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Subject: Re: VCS comparison table
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On 10/14/06, Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 19:06:10 -0400
> "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Top two git issues effecting Mozilla choosing it
> > 1) some way to avoid the initial 450MB download
>
> Why not split the repository up after you import it?  Break it into
> two repositories, last year or two, and then everything else.

That is possible but I wish git had tools supporting this. What do you
do about core developers that want the full repo syncing to other
developers that only have a partial copy?

>
> > 2) better windows support
>
> Hard to imagine native windows support existing in time to be used by
> the Mozilla folks, maybe in time for 3.0 :o)
>
> Sean
>


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