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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 20:23:03
Message-Id: 20051219202024.GD12549@toucan.gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 08:04:19PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 11:44:24 -0800 Donnie Berkholz
3 > <spyderous@g.o> wrote:
4 > | I know some of you have done research on how gentoo-x86 converts over
5 > | to other systems besides CVS such as SVN, arch, etc. But I can't find
6 > | the info anywhere in my archives.
7 >
8 > As for Arch, I managed to find three different "FATAL ERROR!" bugs in
9 > tla within the first five minutes of using it. Two of them were
10 > reported and known, with no fix forthcoming. Plus, we don't use a
11 > distributed development model so Arch doesn't really suit us...
12
13 along those same lines, ive used monotone with a project or two and
14 found it to be highly unstable and very incompatible across minor
15 releases
16 -mike
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