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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@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 21:28:22
Message-Id: 20051219212352.669a3007@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's by Patrick Lauer
1 On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:17:56 +0100 Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>
2 wrote:
3 | I've only tried svn with the cvs2svn script.
4 | Importing with history took ~8h on a 500Mhz box (which surprised me
5 | because I had heard "it takes days"). Doing checkouts caused about the
6 | same load as cvs, but I have no data points on multi-user behaviour.
7
8 The interesting part isn't really how long it takes to convert things
9 or how long it takes to do a checkout, since they're in effect one time
10 costs. I'm guessing we have at least a hundred full tree updates and a
11 thousand commits for every full checkout...
12
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14 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain)
15 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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