Re: [gentoo-dev] The state and future of the OpenRC project

[Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 19:58:36 +0000
hasufell <hasufell@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Andrew Savchenko:
> > On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:49:15 +0200 Alexander Berntsen wrote:
> >> On 10/06/14 17:45, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> >>> I don't know why CVS is still used for Gentoo main repository, 
> >>> probably some infrastructure elements depends deeply on its 
> >>> internals, because I see of no other reason why Git is still not 
> >>> used despite efforts ongoing for last several years.
> >> Infra can probably speak for themselves, but Portage with its history
> >> is crazy big, and git is not great with crazy big projects.
> > 
> > Why are you saying that git is inefficient with large projects? It
> > was developed with efficiency in mind in the first place. And
> > kernel guys will likely disagree with "git is not great with crazy
> > big projects" statement. And with git kernel bisection and other
> > complicated (in terms or data manipulation) operations are quite
> > fast even on old hardware.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Andrew Savchenko
> > 
> 
> interesting read:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/189776
> 
> Does any1 know what fb currently uses or if any of these issues have
> been resolved?
> 

Mercurial + custom plugins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlguc63cRXg

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  Sergei

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