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> As for moving packages by hand vs. using a tool, that's not really infra's |
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> call. If you were asking about CVS vs. SVN, I have been and remain |
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> opposed |
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> to using SVN for gentoo-x86 until someone can offer a whole lot of |
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> assurances around SVN's ability to manage a repo of our size. (1.3GB, |
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> 216,000+ files and counting) |
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KDE moved to Subversion earlier this year, with a few million lines of |
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source code and hundreds of branches and tags. It did it flawlessly and |
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maintained over 400,000 commit history items. |
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I don't think stability is the biggest hurdle here. I think the |
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conversion process will be - they had to write a lot of code from scratch |
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to handle maintaining all of that history (the stock cvs2svn wasn't robust |
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enough), and they had to run the conversion process a number of times, |
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find the bugs, rework their conversion code, and rerun. It was a lengthy |
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process (a few weeks I believe). |
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It's going to require someone to actually write the conversion code and |
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provide a proof of concept conversion. If anyone's up to the challenge, I |
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imagine contacting their sysadmins would be a good start. |
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