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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 03:44:39
Message-Id: 43B35A8D.1000302@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's by Donnie Berkholz
1 Donnie Berkholz wrote:
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5 > Hi all,
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7 > I know some of you have done research on how gentoo-x86 converts over to
8 > other systems besides CVS such as SVN, arch, etc. But I can't find the
9 > info anywhere in my archives.
10 >
11 > Could whoever's got it, post it?
12 >
13 > I'm particularly interested in hearing about CVS, SVN, mercurial,
14 > bazaar, darcs.
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16 http://www.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Tailor - fun and interesting
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18 if you want to export to git make sure you after pack the tree and then
19 prune, otherway you get a huge overhead.
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21 I wonder if arch2 will fix all the tla shortcomings.
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23 btw, I played a bit with git recently and probably I'll give a try with
24 mercurial soon and I couldn't find any annoying issues so far.
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26 To the people that are thinking that isn't necessary to go distributed,
27 well, nothing is preventing us from using the same paradigm.
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29 lu
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33 Luca Barbato
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35 Gentoo/linux Developer Gentoo/PPC Operational Leader
36 http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero
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