[LLVMdev] Git/Svn numbers

[Peter Stahlir]

Hi!

> For the way LLVM works, I can only see one drawback: it works
> always atomically with a whole tree. An example: if you have one
> git repository with directories a/ b/ c/ each with 2500 files,
> then git can only clone/pull/checkout/push/whatever ALL three
> directory with all 7500 files. With svn, you can opt to just get
> a/, when you aren't interested in b/ and c/.

There is something new in 1.5.3:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-submodule.html

peter