Gentoo Archives: gentoo-scm

From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: nod3 on3 <nod3.on3@×××××.com>
Cc: Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>, Mike Auty <ikelos@g.o>, gentoo-scm@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-scm] Help?
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:26:57
Message-Id: b41005390811072126q2eee639icb40b75181e67559@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-scm] Help? by nod3 on3
1 On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:52 AM, nod3 on3 <nod3.on3@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 00:09, Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote:
3 >>
4 >> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote:
5 >> > Mike Auty wrote:
6 >> >> I also tried to check out git and ran into the same pack
7 >> >> size/auto-disconnect problems as Robin was suffering. Any chance of
8 >> >> either getting this put on an http server and/or adding http support to
9 >> >> git.overlays.gentoo.org?
10 >> >
11 >> > I would also be interested in how mercurial would compare in this
12 >> > regard.
13 >>
14 >> Last time I tried to convert gentoo-x86 to mercurial it ran for 30
15 >> days on a high powered ppc64 system. If you want to see how well
16 >> mercurial compares I highly suggest getting a treesnap of gentoo-x86
17 >> and doing the conversion. I tried in 2006 and I hope the conversion
18 >> tools have improved.
19 >> That being said I'm pretty sure most of us are set on git here and it
20 >> would take some convincing to try something else.
21 >>
22 >> -Alec
23 >
24 > Is there any place where someone can get a compressed snapshot of the tree
25 > for testing?
26
27 I'm pretty sure we have a public interface for this; I'm sure Robin
28 knows where it is or call me out if we do not ;)
29
30 If we end up not having something; I'll get a recent snapshot of the
31 raw cvs and put it up somewhere.
32
33 -Alec
34
35 >
36 >>
37 >> >
38 >> > --
39 >> > Ben de Groot
40 >> > Gentoo Linux developer (lxde, media, desktop-misc)
41 >> > Gentoo Linux Release Engineering PR liaison
42 >> > __________________________________________________
43 >> >
44 >> > yngwin@g.o
45 >> > http://ben.liveforge.org/
46 >> > irc://chat.freenode.net/#gentoo-media
47 >> > irc://irc.oftc.net/#lxde
48 >> > __________________________________________________
49 >> >
50 >> >
51 >> >
52 >>
53 >
54 >

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Re: [gentoo-scm] Help? "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>