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 1FZYgt-0006uB-6I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:31:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k3SJTnQb023320; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:29:49 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k3SJOhhW007683 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:24:44 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C192B64317 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:24:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 21001-08 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:24:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix, from userid 721) id 3ED4A64403; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:24:34 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:24:34 +0000 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union Message-ID: <20060428192434.GB22373@woodpecker.gentoo.org> References: <20060428171453.GB62035@watcher.kimaker.com> <20060428185501.GA22506@dst.grantgoodyear.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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060428185501.GA22506@dst.grantgoodyear.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 From: plasmaroo@gentoo.org (Tim Yamin) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.5 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599, NO_RELAYS=-0.001] X-Spam-Score: -2.6 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: b3e2c48c-d71a-459b-b207-9d8461ec76b7 X-Archives-Hash: 11a76d370337a86f0f36e2fcb90e6c4c On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 01:55:01PM -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: > > CVS doesn't do branching nor tags very well... > > > > __Problem: CVS__ > > > > CVS is one of the worst application ever created. The portage tree > > needs to move to subversion. A lot of the problems within the project > > would be solved by using a better SCM system. The previous problems > > regarding the Live Tree and Developer Growth would be solved, IMHO, by > > just switching. Branches Work. Tags Work. Reverts work. Moves > > work. I don't see any reason not to use it. It just plain works. > > Have you tried using SVN for the portage tree? I don't know if anybody > has recently, but in the past when people tried there were two > significant problems: SVN requires at least 2x the tree size for storage > on the local machine, and checkouts take something akin to an order of > magnitude longer than CVS. The former is annoying, but liveable, but > the latter is a deal-breaker. Speaking of which, has anybody done any tests with svk? (http://svk.elixus.org) And: http://svk.elixus.org/?WhySVK -- it would be interesting to compare checkout performance on it as well. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list