Re: [fossil-dev] Fossil 2.1: Scaling

2015-03-02 Thread Andy Goth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 3/2/2015 6:30 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: > For "wide" repositories (such as bsd-src) that hold many thousands > of files in a single check-out, Fossil could be enhanced to allow > cloning, checkout, and commit of just a small slice of the entire > tr

[fossil-dev] Fossil 2.1: Scaling

2015-03-02 Thread Richard Hipp
Ben Pollack's essay at http://bitquabit.com/post/unorthodocs-abandon-your-dvcs-and-return-to-sanity/ succinctly points up some of the problems with DVCS versus centralized VCS (like subversion). Much further discussion occurs on the various news aggregator sites. So I was thinking, could Fossil 2