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 1EroiU-0003T3-W3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 03:44:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBT3hfhZ019511; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 03:43:41 GMT Received: from smtp8.libero.it (smtp8.libero.it [193.70.192.92]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBT3fgHi002278 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 03:41:42 GMT Received: from localhost (172.16.1.80) by smtp8.libero.it (7.0.027-DD01) id 439D91AB015AF783 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 04:41:42 +0100 Received: from smtp3.libero.it ([172.16.1.53]) by localhost (asav2.libero.it [193.70.192.151]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 17446-02 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 04:41:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.0.5] (adsl-ull-250-175.44-151.net24.it [151.44.175.250]) by smtp3.libero.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id 456C2ABE0C for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 04:41:41 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <43B35A8D.1000302@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 04:39:57 +0100 From: Luca Barbato User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051113) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's References: <43A70D98.7070504@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <43A70D98.7070504@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned: with antispam and antivirus automated system at libero.it X-Archives-Salt: a57ad431-cd11-4750-b03c-a9dee71d33c6 X-Archives-Hash: 701086cc36e7b3510c84648954d79c8d Donnie Berkholz wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > I know some of you have done research on how gentoo-x86 converts over to > other systems besides CVS such as SVN, arch, etc. But I can't find the > info anywhere in my archives. > > Could whoever's got it, post it? > > I'm particularly interested in hearing about CVS, SVN, mercurial, > bazaar, darcs. http://www.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Tailor - fun and interesting if you want to export to git make sure you after pack the tree and then prune, otherway you get a huge overhead. I wonder if arch2 will fix all the tla shortcomings. btw, I played a bit with git recently and probably I'll give a try with mercurial soon and I couldn't find any annoying issues so far. To the people that are thinking that isn't necessary to go distributed, well, nothing is preventing us from using the same paradigm. lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Developer Gentoo/PPC Operational Leader http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list