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On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 02:06:36PM -0700, Ryan Phillips wrote: |
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> Second issue with git, is that with lots of tiny little files things |
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> don't work so well. I tried converting our portage tree into a git |
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> tree, and it ran for around 2 days until I finally killed it. If we |
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> didn't want to preserve history, then maybe it would work out. But |
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> with the problem I outlined above I still don't see it as a contender. |
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> There are lots of times when one would want to do a commit in one |
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> directory. |
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Ryan, |
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What tool did you use for that? AFAIK parsecvs[1] has converted some |
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very big and broken CVS repositories successfully. |
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- ferdy |
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[1] git://git.freedesktop.org/~keithp/parsecvs |
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Fernando J. Pereda GarcimartÃn |
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Gentoo Developer (Alpha,net-mail,mutt,git) |
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