From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EpKpZ-0003mv-8p for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 07:25:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBM7OtFW028251; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 07:24:55 GMT Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [63.240.77.82]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBM7Mtn6015634 for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 07:22:55 GMT Received: from trolocsis.dyndns.org ([24.10.22.242]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <20051222072254012007i66ee>; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 07:22:54 +0000 Received: by trolocsis.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 76C41D4061; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:22:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:22:52 -0800 From: Ryan Phillips To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's Message-ID: <20051222072252.GA10469@trolocsis.dyndns.org> References: <43A70D98.7070504@gentoo.org> <43A9C100.40007@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: ad146cb0-def0-4773-9b54-3df8dba5d00f X-Archives-Hash: 3a854097601790c94fac0db0569ba4f1 --xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Bret Towe [2005-12-21 23:16]: > On 12/21/05, Donnie Berkholz 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. >=20 > 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 --xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDqlRM6cLeDQrpxL8RAhDmAJ9y+hm36kaOIFkPzCxtaRBNTkbGWgCfUNmK FxHpNdoY+/LXTO+xx2WXn2k= =VJDG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list