Aron Griffis <agriffis@gentoo.org> said:
> Have you followed the threads in the past regarding using other
> version control systems for portage?  Some devs have done benchmarks
> and found that there are blocking issues with subversion, particularly
> because of its repo-wide revisions that prevent multiple commits from
> happening simultaneously.

In actuality, Subversion does 98% of the commit in an initial
transaction, and the blocking only occurs in the last 2% with the FSFS
filesystem.  It really isn't an issue and shouldn't prevent us from
adopting it.

-ryan