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Modern centralized version control systems? (lemmy.today)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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CVCSs are commonly used for monorepos and large repositories. The most popular FOSS option is Subversion, although it may not be favored by all programmers and users. Perforce is another option, but it is a proprietary system.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ability to clone only certain parts of a repo. Git has shallow and partial clones, but they don't feel like the right tool for large/mono repos.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Git provides subtree (and submodules) which enable this with some planning