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1. git, until very recently (but haven't checked), requires you to check out the whole repo even if you're just interested in only a subdir or single file 2. S
by tannhaeuser 8y ago
1. git, until very recently (but haven't checked), requires you to check out the whole repo even if you're just interested in only a subdir or single file
2. Suppose you're implementing a Wiki where docs are version-controlled on a fs mounted by the web server. git doesn't really fit this use case since you'd need a shared checkout dir, whereas eg. RCS does, provided locking is accepted or even preferred
3. on-site version control of config files in /etc when you don't do full-blown DevOps