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From: Alexander Berntsen <bernalex@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The state and future of the OpenRC project
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:49:27
Message-Id: 539728FB.3010305@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] The state and future of the OpenRC project by Andrew Savchenko
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4 On 10/06/14 17:45, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
5 > I don't know why CVS is still used for Gentoo main repository,
6 > probably some infrastructure elements depends deeply on its
7 > internals, because I see of no other reason why Git is still not
8 > used despite efforts ongoing for last several years.
9 Infra can probably speak for themselves, but Portage with its history
10 is crazy big, and git is not great with crazy big projects. What you
11 commonly do in those situations is obviously make it more modular and
12 have several repositories. My guess is this process of figuring out
13 how to git efficiently isn't progressing too rapidly.
14 - --
15 Alexander
16 bernalex@g.o
17 https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander
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