Re: Git User's Survey 2008 partial summary, part 5 - other SCM

[david@lang.hm]

On Sun, 14 Sep 2008, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

> 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