On 27/03/06, Ryan Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aron Griffis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Have you followed the threads in the past regarding using other > > version control systems for portage? Some devs have done benchmarks > > and found that there are blocking issues with subversion, particularly > > because of its repo-wide revisions that prevent multiple commits from > > happening simultaneously. > > In actuality, Subversion does 98% of the commit in an initial > transaction, and the blocking only occurs in the last 2% with the FSFS > filesystem. It really isn't an issue and shouldn't prevent us from > adopting it.
All svn commits are atomic, and that requires some kind of global lock. I'd say the (slight) performance penalty is worth it for that feature alone. I'd also point out that the KDE project have everything in a single svn repository and can manage >10,000 commits per month with no problems. There are various testimonials around from people claiming to be running svn on multiple GB repositories with >17,000 commits a month. -- [email protected] mailing list
