Re: [gentoo-dev] proxy maintainership and gentoo-x86 scm

[Ben de Groot]

2010/1/14 Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>:
> 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)
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