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Re: GIT (was: Coverity Scan)


On 4/26/2014 07:27, Andrey Repin wrote:
> This is exactly what makes me dislike it strongly. This, and idiotic model of
> copying whole repository to my machine, when I only want to glance at the
> source code, and find the culprit of my current issues.
> I've spent 3 hours downloading a 200Mb repo of a project, where the Subversion
> client pulled 4 or 5Mb HEAD of it in like 10 minutes, once I realized what an
> idiotic weight I pulled and went to google to see if it can be done better.
> And "fine control" doesn't mix with "project consistency" at all.
> Subversion is aimed at versioning of a whole project, in a supposedly
> consistent state at each version. What can be more "fine" than this, is beyond
> my understanding.

git clone --depth 1 if you don't care about history.

> You can still commit separate files from working copy, though, but this
> practice is discouraged for the greater good of the project you develop.
> 

Don't you need to git add individual files to mark for commit? Won't you
get into the same problems if you forgot to commit files in SVN?



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