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 1FNnUH-0004qW-34 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:54:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2R8rhCV003010; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:53:43 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.236]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2R8piFb022090 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:51:46 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so1395378wra for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:51:43 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=XKdddVw6fCtDpGzfoh5/WV6/kPF6pZNTJt6moLAJIA6aVdP2EpJ9dwEqQvAIYVLalb3+TRB5Ye9tYMDpC+DfmWwc7K0BdiZoxxYAyquuLeUE8PKVFCS8HArGQoqDNF0nfKi2QEyWttURFiHadwolYvHfomsC/VFVheNIS8msMgU= Received: by 10.54.105.17 with SMTP id d17mr2545278wrc; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:51:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.160.1 with HTTP; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:51:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <623652d50603270051l2636dd32g48af486fa4705f2e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:51:43 +0100 From: "Chris Bainbridge" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal? In-Reply-To: <20060327054353.GA9018@trolocsis.dyndns.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060324193534.GA24818@dst.grantgoodyear.org> <200603241506.54915.dostrow@gentoo.org> <20060325064751.GA8104@trolocsis.dyndns.org> <20060325230048.GA2691@olive.flatmonk> <20060327054353.GA9018@trolocsis.dyndns.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k2R8piFb022090 X-Archives-Salt: c4a3a412-eb44-454d-8482-b1586918dbd3 X-Archives-Hash: 9fd74edad6393d9955e87aa772534dae On 27/03/06, Ryan Phillips wrote: > Aron Griffis said: > > Have you followed the threads in the past regarding using other > > version control systems for portage? Some devs have done benchmarks > > and found that there are blocking issues with subversion, particularly > > because of its repo-wide revisions that prevent multiple commits from > > happening simultaneously. > > In actuality, Subversion does 98% of the commit in an initial > transaction, and the blocking only occurs in the last 2% with the FSFS > filesystem. It really isn't an issue and shouldn't prevent us from > adopting it. All svn commits are atomic, and that requires some kind of global lock. I'd say the (slight) performance penalty is worth it for that feature alone. I'd also point out that the KDE project have everything in a single svn repository and can manage >10,000 commits per month with no problems. There are various testimonials around from people claiming to be running svn on multiple GB repositories with >17,000 commits a month. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list