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From: Benoit Boissinot <bboissin@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The deal with epkgmove
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 16:57:47
Message-Id: 40f323d00512100851scf97801we7c593741215db96@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] The deal with epkgmove by Luca Barbato
1 On 12/10/05, Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> wrote:
2 > Kurt Lieber wrote:
3 >
4 > > CVS may not be the new, shiny kid on the block, but it's been very stable,
5 > > presented few problems and, in general, has served us well over the past 5+
6 > > years. Folks tend to point at the fancy bells and whistles that other
7 > > VCS offer, but they don't always stop to consider the stability and
8 > > scalability which are the most important characteristics by far.
9 >
10 > I'd suggest having a look at git or mercurial, they are tested on a
11 > quite big workload and they seems good enough for the task.
12
13 In case someone is interested, there was a presentation at EuroBSDCon
14 about switching FreeBSD to Mercurial.
15
16 the paper: http://www.keltia.net/EuroBSDCon/paper.pdf
17 the slides: http://www.keltia.net/EuroBSDCon/slides.pdf
18
19 regards,
20
21 Benoit
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