Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ryan Phillips <rphillips@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Ryan Phillips <rphillips@g.o>, agriffis@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal?
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 05:47:06
Message-Id: 20060327054353.GA9018@trolocsis.dyndns.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal? by Aron Griffis
1 Aron Griffis <agriffis@g.o> said:
2 > Have you followed the threads in the past regarding using other
3 > version control systems for portage? Some devs have done benchmarks
4 > and found that there are blocking issues with subversion, particularly
5 > because of its repo-wide revisions that prevent multiple commits from
6 > happening simultaneously.
7
8 In actuality, Subversion does 98% of the commit in an initial
9 transaction, and the blocking only occurs in the last 2% with the FSFS
10 filesystem. It really isn't an issue and shouldn't prevent us from
11 adopting it.
12
13 -ryan

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal? Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal? Chris Bainbridge <chris.bainbridge@×××××.com>