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On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 00:09, Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Mike Auty wrote: |
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> >> I also tried to check out git and ran into the same pack |
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> >> size/auto-disconnect problems as Robin was suffering. Any chance of |
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> >> either getting this put on an http server and/or adding http support to |
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> >> git.overlays.gentoo.org? |
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> > I would also be interested in how mercurial would compare in this regard. |
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> Last time I tried to convert gentoo-x86 to mercurial it ran for 30 |
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> days on a high powered ppc64 system. If you want to see how well |
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> mercurial compares I highly suggest getting a treesnap of gentoo-x86 |
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> and doing the conversion. I tried in 2006 and I hope the conversion |
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> tools have improved. |
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> That being said I'm pretty sure most of us are set on git here and it |
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> would take some convincing to try something else. |
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> -Alec |
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Is there any place where someone can get a compressed snapshot of the tree |
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for testing? |
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> > -- |
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> > Ben de Groot |
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> > Gentoo Linux developer (lxde, media, desktop-misc) |
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> > Gentoo Linux Release Engineering PR liaison |
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> > yngwin@g.o |
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> > http://ben.liveforge.org/ |
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> > irc://chat.freenode.net/#gentoo-media |
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> > irc://irc.oftc.net/#lxde |
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> > __________________________________________________ |
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