On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 12:09:30AM +0100, R?mi Cardona wrote: > Because atomic commits don't exist in CVS, the scripts rely on > commit/modification dates to recreate atomic commits in svn/git. > Unfortunately, in some not-so-rare cases, it can definitely mess things > up, and Gnome folks took about 6 months to get rid of these issues. You should use dates AND usernames.
> Are those statements true for portage? Do they actually matter for us? > > *Conclusion* We'd need to try a migration of snapshots to see how much > load it would be to migrate gentoo-x86 from CVS onto something else. Could you please actually look at the rest of the links in this thread? Antarus did exactly this for his Summer-of-Code work. The original plan was testing migrations to SVN, GIT and Mercurial. I believe that Mercurial flunked very early, and I do not know the details. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux Developer E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85
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