Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's

2005-12-29 Thread Luca Barbato
Spider (DmD Lj) wrote: Git, seems useful, but a bit hard to track ( I really dislike having to fibble around with long random characterstrings just to check out a certain version. I can deal, but still) cogito solves the issue more or less lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's

2005-12-28 Thread Luca Barbato
Donnie Berkholz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I know some of you have done research on how gentoo-x86 converts over to other systems besides CVS such as SVN, arch, etc. But I can't find the info anywhere in my archives. Could whoever's got it, post it? I'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's

2005-12-27 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 23 December 2005 22:36, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 20:33:13 +0100 Paul de Vrieze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | - Checkout time of a full new tree (no load, and with load) Do we really care about this? SVN will do really really badly here, but does it matter? Depends

Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's

2005-12-23 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Thursday 22 December 2005 08:13, Bret Towe wrote: On 12/21/05, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Donnie Berkholz wrote: I know some of you have done research on how gentoo-x86 converts over to other systems besides CVS such as SVN, arch, etc. But I can't find the info

Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's

2005-12-23 Thread Spider (DmD Lj)
On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 20:34 +0100, Paul de Vrieze wrote: On Thursday 22 December 2005 08:13, Bret Towe wrote: On 12/21/05, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Donnie Berkholz wrote: I know some of you have done research on how gentoo-x86 converts over to other systems besides

Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's

2005-12-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 20:33:13 +0100 Paul de Vrieze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | - Checkout time of a full new tree (no load, and with load) Do we really care about this? SVN will do really really badly here, but does it matter? | - Concurrency performance (how do multiple simultaneous commits and |

Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's

2005-12-21 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Donnie Berkholz wrote: I know some of you have done research on how gentoo-x86 converts over to other systems besides CVS such as SVN, arch, etc. But I can't find the info anywhere in my archives. Could whoever's got it, post it? I'm particularly interested in hearing about CVS, SVN,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's

2005-12-21 Thread Bret Towe
On 12/21/05, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Donnie Berkholz wrote: I know some of you have done research on how gentoo-x86 converts over to other systems besides CVS such as SVN, arch, etc. But I can't find the info anywhere in my archives. Could whoever's got it, post it?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's

2005-12-21 Thread Ryan Phillips
* Bret Towe [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-12-21 23:16]: On 12/21/05, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Donnie Berkholz wrote: I know some of you have done research on how gentoo-x86 converts over to other systems besides CVS such as SVN, arch, etc. But I can't find the info anywhere

[gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's

2005-12-19 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I know some of you have done research on how gentoo-x86 converts over to other systems besides CVS such as SVN, arch, etc. But I can't find the info anywhere in my archives. Could whoever's got it, post it? I'm particularly interested in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's

2005-12-19 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 11:44:24 -0800 Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I know some of you have done research on how gentoo-x86 converts over | to other systems besides CVS such as SVN, arch, etc. But I can't find | the info anywhere in my archives. | | Could whoever's got it, post it? The

Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's

2005-12-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 08:04:19PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 11:44:24 -0800 Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I know some of you have done research on how gentoo-x86 converts over | to other systems besides CVS such as SVN, arch, etc. But I can't find | the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's

2005-12-19 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 11:44 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Hi all, I know some of you have done research on how gentoo-x86 converts over to other systems besides CVS such as SVN, arch, etc. But I can't find the info anywhere in my archives. Could whoever's got it, post it? I'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's

2005-12-19 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:17:56 +0100 Patrick Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I've only tried svn with the cvs2svn script. | Importing with history took ~8h on a 500Mhz box (which surprised me | because I had heard it takes days). Doing checkouts caused about the | same load as cvs, but I have no

Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's

2005-12-19 Thread Fernando J. Pereda
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:17:56PM +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote: | http://www.keltia.net/EuroBSDCon/slides.pdf has some performance data on | mercurial for FreeBSD, roughly the same size as the Gentoo cvs | repositories. It's not the size of the repo what matters... it is the workflow. I don't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's

2005-12-19 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 21:23 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:17:56 +0100 Patrick Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I've only tried svn with the cvs2svn script. | Importing with history took ~8h on a 500Mhz box (which surprised me | because I had heard it takes days). Doing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's

2005-12-19 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On 19/12/05, Peter Johanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or maybe not, I dunno. The point being I don't think we should immediately write off any of the distributed SCMs without pondering how they might make a difference or be usable. It would be very useful for people who aren't devs but

Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's

2005-12-19 Thread Kalin KOZHUHAROV
Chris Bainbridge wrote: On 19/12/05, Peter Johanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or maybe not, I dunno. The point being I don't think we should immediately write off any of the distributed SCMs without pondering how they might make a difference or be usable. It would be very useful for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Viability of other SCM/version control systems for big repo's

2005-12-19 Thread Chandler Carruth
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 09:17:56 +0900 Kalin KOZHUHAROV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | As far as speed is concerned, it is comparable with CVS. Be more specific please. We're looking for benchmarks showing how well it performs in terms of speed, bandwidth and memory usage for