On Sun, 14 Sep 2008, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > On 9/12/08, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > 15) Do you miss features in git that you know from other SCMs? > > If yes, what features are these (and from which SCM)? > > (Open ended text - Essay) > > > > Total respondents 1046 (some/many of them wrote 'no') > > skipped this question 1249 > > > > This is just a very quick summary, based on a first few pages of > > responses, Full analysis is I think best left for after closing the > > survey, because I think this would be a lot of work... > > > > So here is preliminary list, or rather beginning of one: > > * sparse/partial checkout and clone (e.g. Perforce) > > Have not read the survey result, but do you recall what is the most > used term for sparse/partial checkout? What SCMs do sparse/partial > checkout? I think it could be usable as it is now in my > will-be-sent-again series, but I don't really know how people want it > to from that. Well, I do not remember, and I think I haven't got original data now, only the above summary. Besides, I haven't even began analysing data from question 34. about ideas for features, and I guess we would see 'partial checkou' ide there too. >From short discussion on #git channel, Abhijit Menon-Sen (crab) said that they are 'restricted views' in Perforce, but this terminology is completly alien to Git. Bjorn Steinbrink (doener_) mentioned that Subversion 1.5 acquired something they call 'sparse directories': http://blogs.open.collab.net/svn/2007/06/sparse-director.html (Sidenote: perhaps it would be worth to follow SVN UI for sparse checkout here?). In short, people on #git agreed that 'partial checkout' is a good name; I think that 'sparse checkout' better renders idea that one can checkout _set_ of files and directories, and it is not only limited to single subdirectory ('subtree checkout' / 'subdirectory checkout') or a single file. Comparison table on Better SCM Initiative http://better-scm.berlios.de/comparison/comparison.html names it "Ability to Work only on One Directory of the Repository" and uses '"work_on_dir"' id. HTH -- Jakub Narebski Poland -- 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
