Well, while I found the question strange, perhaps it is more of a method to gauge whether the applicant is familiar with tools like cvs/svn/git? A reasonably e

Well, while I found the question strange, perhaps it is more of a method to gauge whether the applicant is familiar with tools like cvs/svn/git? A reasonably experienced team developer [perhaps a dev admin guy as well] will probably know how to issue a 'svn update [url]' to obtain specific files [or directory trees] and avoid pulling the entire 500MB repository just to ensure those files are updated.