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. -Kevin Ballard On Nov 3, 2010, at 5:45 PM, MDellerus wrote: > I have a co-worker who has suggested that, using "svnadmin hotcopy", subversion > can be > just as "distributed" a system as Git > > While I see how this can be done, it hardly seems to me to qualify as "just as", > making this "plausible" at best. > > Can anyone give me a quick confirmation of this? Confirmed? Plausible? Busted? > > If this is confirmed or plausible, could someone give me a quick run-down? > > (I would appreciate a response, no matter how long it takes, but I do have a > meeting with this co-worker in another 16 hours... (10am Pacific).) > > Thanks in advance! > > (FYI - I have cross-posted this, just once, to an SVN forum, in the event they > might have a different opinion.) > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html