From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: can subversion 1.6 be made "just as distributed as git"? Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:44:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: MDellerus , git@vger.kernel.org To: Kevin Ballard X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 04 09:48:01 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PDvUG-0004E2-Rc for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:48:01 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755320Ab0KDIrc (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2010 04:47:32 -0400 Received: from mx1.imag.fr ([129.88.30.5]:38777 "EHLO shiva.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754092Ab0KDIoJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2010 04:44:09 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by shiva.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oA48Svgb011715 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 4 Nov 2010 09:28:57 +0100 Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.43.5]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PDvQP-0007oF-SC; Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:44:01 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Kevin Ballard's message of "Wed\, 3 Nov 2010 17\:58\:29 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (shiva.imag.fr [129.88.30.5]); Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:28:57 +0100 (CET) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: oA48Svgb011715 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1289464139.13698@l2/3QkMeFQY5BCQzhF9Lgg Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Kevin Ballard writes: > 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. Right. Branching is the easy part. Merging is the hard and important one. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/