[Nix-dev] new possible movement to git (?)

[Michael Raskin]

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>I just want to add one more point in favor to git. (compared to svn)
>The history does not have to be clone entirely if you want to checkout
>the HEAD / a branch / a tag.  Nix-prefect-git (already used by Hydra
>and Nixpkgs) is able to do a minimal checkout.

Given that it has to do a search to find necessary depth, not exactly
minimal - because shallow checkouts only work well with named revisions 
and names quickly become obsolete.