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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The deal with epkgmove
From: "Caleb Tennis" <caleb@gentoo.org>
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> As for moving packages by hand vs. using a tool, that's not really infra's
> call. If you were asking about CVS vs. SVN, I have been and remain
> opposed
> to using SVN for gentoo-x86 until someone can offer a whole lot of
> assurances around SVN's ability to manage a repo of our size. (1.3GB,
> 216,000+ files and counting)
KDE moved to Subversion earlier this year, with a few million lines of
source code and hundreds of branches and tags. It did it flawlessly and
maintained over 400,000 commit history items.
I don't think stability is the biggest hurdle here. I think the
conversion process will be - they had to write a lot of code from scratch
to handle maintaining all of that history (the stock cvs2svn wasn't robust
enough), and they had to run the conversion process a number of times,
find the bugs, rework their conversion code, and rerun. It was a lengthy
process (a few weeks I believe).
It's going to require someone to actually write the conversion code and
provide a proof of concept conversion. If anyone's up to the challenge, I
imagine contacting their sysadmins would be a good start.
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