From: Jos Backus <jos@...>
Date: 2007-03-13T13:46:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Why SVN?

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:21:36AM +0900, Mike Kasick wrote:
> The one scenario where I find Subversion really useful is when I
> specifically don't want to maintain a local copy of an entire repository,
> especially a large one like the Linux kernel.  With Subversion, I only need
> a local copy of the checked out revision.  That's the one thing where I
> wish there was better handling in distributed revision control
> systems--although folks may claim that such handling would break the
> paradigm.

Bazaar (also written in Python :-)) has had lightweight checkouts for a while:

http://bazaar-vcs.org/SharedRepositoryTutorial?highlight=%28lightweight%29

They should also work for Subversion repositories.

-- 
Jos Backus
jos at catnook.com