On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 05:05:58PM -0300, Ignacio Riquelme Morelle wrote:
> On Thursday 16 February 2012 16:45:51 Fabian Mueller wrote:
> > If I understood git might solve that problem without a split of the
> > repository, because local forks are cheap with it.
>
> I'm not really sure what that's supposed to solve. Forking does not imply
> separate code and resource repositories, and you cannot make usable partial
> clones of a existing repository with Git (although you can make shallow
> clones, which are not compatible with push operations, and you still get all
> files in the tree).
If you are concerned only about local disk space (and activity) git helps
there either way. Local branches eliminate some of the need for multiple
svn sandboxes. But if you do use them, git will use hardlinks ('git clone')
or symlinks ('git-new-workdir') to share the repository data.
--
Martin Renold
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