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From: Patrick Lauer <patrick@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 21:50:40
Message-Id: 1135028831.29212.8.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 21:23 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:17:56 +0100 Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>
3 > wrote:
4 > | I've only tried svn with the cvs2svn script.
5 > | Importing with history took ~8h on a 500Mhz box (which surprised me
6 > | because I had heard "it takes days"). Doing checkouts caused about the
7 > | same load as cvs, but I have no data points on multi-user behaviour.
8 >
9 > The interesting part isn't really how long it takes to convert things
10 > or how long it takes to do a checkout, since they're in effect one time
11 > costs.
12 Yes, but generating a "realistic" workload isn't trivial.If we had cvs
13 logs to replay we might get some good data.
14 > I'm guessing we have at least a hundred full tree updates and a
15 > thousand commits for every full checkout...
16 Provide us with a script to generate partial updates/commits and I think
17 many people will just run it for fun ...
18
19 Maybe the nice Infra dudes could provide cvs snapshots for testing?
20
21
22 Patrick
23 --
24 Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move

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