Danny Sauer wrote:

> Well, in the case of subversion, you have all of the history information
> checked out in the local repository.  SVN trades some local disk space
> for a big reduction in network bandwidth, which is part of the reason it
> feels significantly faster.  

This is interesting. There are a number of "far remote" situations with
bandwidth problems where this could be interesting.

> So with SVN it doesn't *really* matter - I'm pretty sure you can
> reconstruct a repository from any local copy therof.

OTOH, if using anything for backup purposes, I'd go farther than being
"pretty sure" that it works :)

Gerhard

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