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 1FZYyJ-0004OX-3Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:49:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k3SJlOvh008776; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:47:24 GMT Received: from mail.ineton.ro (mail.ineton.ro [217.156.27.7]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k3SJflx4017691 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:41:47 GMT Received: (qmail 16705 invoked by uid 210); 28 Apr 2006 22:41:47 +0300 Received: from 217.156.27.36 by hera (envelope-from , uid 201) with qmail-scanner-1.25st (bitdefender: v7.0/2490/372431. spamassassin: 3.1.0. perlscan: 1.25st. Clear:RC:1(217.156.27.36):. Processed in 1.649527 secs); 28 Apr 2006 19:41:47 -0000 Received: from tg-neamt1.ineton.ro (HELO ?217.156.27.36?) (mrness@217.156.27.36) by mail.ineton.ro with ESMTPA; 28 Apr 2006 22:41:45 +0300 Message-ID: <44526FF0.4090507@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 22:41:36 +0300 From: Alin Nastac Organization: Gentoo Foundation User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20060218) 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] Gentoo: State of the Union References: <20060428171453.GB62035@watcher.kimaker.com> <20060428185501.GA22506@dst.grantgoodyear.org> <20060428192434.GB22373@woodpecker.gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20060428192434.GB22373@woodpecker.gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig86CCC4869D42E70C97512CC6" X-Archives-Salt: 39ddebe6-eeca-48a4-a361-70678e676d45 X-Archives-Hash: 1d9ba8a00cf6752c89375ad608080a0c This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig86CCC4869D42E70C97512CC6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Tim Yamin wrote: >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. > > Since it is derived from svn, I think it would be x times slower than svn. Besides, why would we need a decentralized SCM? --------------enig86CCC4869D42E70C97512CC6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEUm/0RZBYwhawvi4RAkkhAJ9sssSf4CGUp+lXXslKS7P5d/pZKgCeL7SW Uulp/4D4C9cQCdQGwPizIBY= =vpK8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig86CCC4869D42E70C97512CC6-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list