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 1FZazT-0005Es-BE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 21:59:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k3SLwUK2029218; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 21:58:30 GMT Received: from watcher.kimaker.com (c-67-169-29-182.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.169.29.182]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k3SLuR6f024743 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 21:56:27 GMT Received: by watcher.kimaker.com (Postfix, from userid 1002) id EFF1575858D; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:56:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:56:26 -0700 From: Ryan Phillips To: Ryan Phillips , gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: ferdy@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union Message-ID: <20060428215626.GB65225@watcher.kimaker.com> Mail-Followup-To: Ryan Phillips , gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, ferdy@gentoo.org References: <20060428171453.GB62035@watcher.kimaker.com> <20060428185501.GA22506@dst.grantgoodyear.org> <20060428203533.GC63263@watcher.kimaker.com> <44527E5D.3080801@gentoo.org> <20060428210636.GE63263@watcher.kimaker.com> <20060428214155.GE26082@ferdyx.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="3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060428214155.GE26082@ferdyx.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: 2664cac1-b92d-4631-b74e-bd7805e4b62d X-Archives-Hash: 1c060a390f0eb54e7d55067d5cedf951 --3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "Fernando J. Pereda" said: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 02:06:36PM -0700, Ryan Phillips wrote: > >=20 > > Second issue with git, is that with lots of tiny little files things > > don't work so well. I tried converting our portage tree into a git > > tree, and it ran for around 2 days until I finally killed it. If we > > didn't want to preserve history, then maybe it would work out. But > > with the problem I outlined above I still don't see it as a contender. > > There are lots of times when one would want to do a commit in one > > directory. > >=20 >=20 > Ryan, >=20 > What tool did you use for that? AFAIK parsecvs[1] has converted some > very big and broken CVS repositories successfully. >=20 > - ferdy >=20 > [1] git://git.freedesktop.org/~keithp/parsecvs I was using cvs2git. I sorta like git in certain aspects. If git would work better than CVS or anything other SCM I'm for it. Right now, _anything_ would be better than CVS. -ryan --3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEUo+J6cLeDQrpxL8RAuYHAJ45MASJUXGmQvm4H5aGz0T1OFqiXACePo/5 K8dyn6PgsUZ4eyjjm4KnpBQ= =fTXO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list