From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NVSV6-0001C5-Vm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:24:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DF2E8E0BB9; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:24:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f215.google.com (mail-bw0-f215.google.com [209.85.218.215]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99BC4E0BB9 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:24:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz7 with SMTP id 7so17693586bwz.26 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:24:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=AVP81tXa96mSd2t2Z36ExaVt7IXSMnw8k5BQKqAswVg=; b=YUnuZojvH+4Q0lWCkTSPiQcVxTm+n2E57mKbUfHl9MLIEch+IPw48IqlZlxVKQg/gx VTElAuvqFuT1FpQdxzzEYnFRUWDoF2O0Qu3Fekz3l74cM8ux3nIxkKJK9V2C0Ea1acK8 tlLqGb/wNPMfTdZJZMTJEqATBH7hRXw2xuTjU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=UhFk/qoiq5xXkThbyRCgSB7j6+t9huBW87PHj9urJjOILt6W1hy6bcbZuUzChceK2B PSxgzZqxvcU3NeRMnwfCvG9eQRUxKNy4WjRex5eLgBx0SOJq6oH2lJH1fj8x8wrjgdwe +dqm90zTbb9DK++PTCrFLcfh8XcCqsWb4fVQg= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: yngwin.gentoo@gmail.com Received: by 10.239.167.129 with SMTP id g1mr104587hbe.177.1263486254676; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:24:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <8b4c83ad1001140449k49995e0ra01eeca16167735a@mail.gmail.com> References: <201001112305.16532.hwoarang@gentoo.org> <201001122149.11091.hwoarang@gentoo.org> <201001131054.03953.vapier@gentoo.org> <8b4c83ad1001140449k49995e0ra01eeca16167735a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:24:14 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: d14e61a1b20e0932 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] proxy maintainership and gentoo-x86 scm From: Ben de Groot To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 476c2280-f049-4b61-a08d-d6f959715f01 X-Archives-Hash: cfe9da18da0b59214d3452e59b75bd49 2010/1/14 Nirbheek Chauhan : > In theory, yes. In practice, git is too slow to handle 30,000 files. > Even simple operations like git add become painful even if you put the > whole of portage on tmpfs since git does a stat() on every single file > in the repository with every operation. > [...] > Besides this, there is the problem of accommodating people who use a > subtree of gentoo-x86, and those who don't want the entire CVS history > on their hard drives. In summation, robbat2 needs *our* help in the > following: Thanks! That was a nice overview of the remaining issues. Has anyone tested Mercurial to see how it compares, especially with respect to these issues? Cheers, -- Ben de Groot Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) ______________________________________________________