Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's

[Ryan Phillips <rphillips@gentoo.org>]

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* Bret Towe <magnade@gmail.com> [2005-12-21 23:16]:
> On 12/21/05, Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > > I know some of you have done research on how gentoo-x86 converts over to
> > > other systems besides CVS such as SVN, arch, etc. But I can't find the
> > > info anywhere in my archives.
> > >
> > > Could whoever's got it, post it?
> > >
> > > I'm particularly interested in hearing about CVS, SVN, mercurial,
> > > bazaar, darcs.
> >
> > I've downloaded a copy of the gentoo-x86 repo and will run tests myself.
> > Please advise me as to exactly which tests you would like to see, beyond
> > whatever I feel like doing.
> 
> might i also suggest testing out git along with the above listed?
> since i dont know git well enuf or what exactly are requirements of
> a gentoo dev ill just point to some documents
> tutorial can be found here:
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/tutorial.html
> and documention here:
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/

I know that some people have big reservations on distributed SCMs, but
why not switch to a distributed format, and cherry pick from other
developer's (and users) repositories?

Git allows for pushing to a centralized server, so it still 'works' in
a similar sense of committing changes to CVS.

cg-branch-add gentoo-main git+ssh://user@someplace/
cg-push gentoo-main

-Ryan

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