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

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:31:06AM +0200, Nicolas Pierron wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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.

Compared to svn? Svn never requires a full clone of the history. :)