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I don't follow, what's the specific advantage here? And just for context, we use both git and a cvs (yes, it's still going!) at day job. Both are pretty slow.

• pjc50 8y ago
  Since a centralised system doesn't carry all the history with every checkout, the checkouts are smaller and there's less risk of running out of SSD space with a large monorepo. It's also quicker to make a new one. svn/p4 will let you checkout a subtree of a "monorepo". p4 in particular is pretty fast, although as a closed source CASE tool its days must be numbered. (re: carrying all the history, I used to work somewhere where they checked the build artefacts in to svn on every release build. A naive "git svn" import was in the 10s of gigabytes.)
  • kingosticks 8y ago
    We don't have space issues on our machines but you are right, you don't need multiple copies of the entire history and that's why I suggested the worktree feature.
    • pjc50 8y ago
      Thanks for suggesting that, I'd not realised it was possible.