[Python-Dev] HTTPS read-only SVN access is denied?

techtonik techtonik at gmail.com
Thu Sep 4 16:21:31 CEST 2008


On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:48 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>>
>> I do not need the whole branch - only a small subset of files related
>> to distutils. I know that bazaar can't do partial checkouts - it can
>> only fetch the whole branch. What about mercurial?
>
> Mercurial can't do it either. But I don't think it matters a lot; unless your
> bandwidth is very low the full clone should be fast enough. Here it takes just
> 150s. for the trunk.

Thanks for support. However, fetching whole branch is not an option, because
Internet is expensive here - even 10Mb tarball costs 20 cents. To make matters
worse I would say that it is more than 0.04% of an average salary.

-- 
--anatoly t.


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