Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Some sync control

[Robin H. Johnson]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 05:51:43PM -0500, Seemant Kulleen wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 14:08 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> > However, for several reasons this is not yet feasible, and furthermore
> Just for the sake of completeness can you outline those reasons?
I'm not saying it won't happen ever, just not yet.

1. The work-in-progress for planning out the migration to the new
CVS/SVN box at GNi. The new hardware will be needed regardless of which
VCS we will need.

2. See the results (and as-yet unpublished GLEP) of Antarus's Summer of
Code research into VCS migrations. I'll include his summary verbatim
here:
   "If Gentoo is to switch now I could only recommend SVN.  GIT needs
   just those few extra features to be a viable canidate.  I think if
   there are volunteers to make GIT work for Gentoo than that would be
   best.  GIT is a better all around tool in terms of technical merits
   for most development tasks."
The upstream GIT developers have started work on some of these changes,
as they need them (see the recent scaling problems with gitweb on
kernel.org). GIT has improved in the 6 months since Antarus's SoC work
was done.

3. In regards to any possible migration, the point of infra is that it
is not acceptable to migration to $X now, and then $Y 6 months down the
road. Reasons behind this are concerns over loss of data in repeated
migrations, and having to revisit various scripts and tools more than
otherwise necessary.

My personal view (not infra) on it, is that I'm mostly negative about
changing VCS at all - I would prefer not to change, because the status
quo works very well as it is. If a change is going to be made, it should
be taken as a chance to resolve as many different issues at one time as
possible, and for that reason I favour GIT over SVN.

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Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux Developer
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