Re: [gentoo-dev] The deal with epkgmove

[Benoit Boissinot <bboissin@gmail.com>]

On 12/10/05, Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Kurt Lieber wrote:
>
> > CVS may not be the new, shiny kid on the block, but it's been very stable,
> > presented few problems and, in general, has served us well over the past 5+
> > years.  Folks tend to point at the fancy bells and whistles that other
> > VCS offer, but they don't always stop to consider the stability and
> > scalability which are the most important characteristics by far.
>
> I'd suggest having a look at git or mercurial, they are tested on a
> quite big workload and they seems good enough for the task.

In case someone is interested, there was a presentation at EuroBSDCon
about switching FreeBSD to Mercurial.

the paper: http://www.keltia.net/EuroBSDCon/paper.pdf
the slides: http://www.keltia.net/EuroBSDCon/slides.pdf

regards,

Benoit

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