Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: is monotone for me?

2010-06-30 Thread CooSoft Support
Yup that is an understatement - one of the reasons why I was attracted to the project... When the biggest cause of corruption seems to be faulty RAID hardware then you know that you are onto a winner. I did some tests, with the aide of one of the developers, to simulate corruption (I

Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: is monotone for me?

2010-06-28 Thread CooSoft Support
Sorry if this has been mentioned before. I used to run mtn on a SPARC server at work. The database was 1.5GB ~5 revisions ~3000 branches and ~1 tags. It was very easy to set up and maintain. It pretty much ran itself. The server had 4GB of memory and it never got close to using that

Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: is monotone for me?

2010-06-28 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:41:50PM +0100, CooSoft Support wrote: It has proved to be totally reliable That's for me is the most important thing about monotone, trumping all other considerations. The monotone developers are more paranoid about data loss than I am. -- hendrik.

[Monotone-devel] Re: is monotone for me?

2010-06-28 Thread Gour
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:41:50 +0100 CooSoft == CooSoft Support supp...@coosoft.plus.com wrote: CooSoft Sorry if this has been mentioned before. I used to run mtn CooSoft on a SPARC server at work. The database was 1.5GB ~5 CooSoft revisions ~3000 branches and ~1 tags. It was very easy

[Monotone-devel] Re: is monotone for me?

2010-06-28 Thread Gour
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:39:57 -0400 hendrik == hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: hendrik That's for me is the most important thing about monotone, hendrik trumping all other considerations. The monotone developers hendrik are more paranoid about data loss than I am. So far, I went (twice) through

[Monotone-devel] Re: is monotone for me?

2010-06-27 Thread Gour
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:21:11 +0200 Patrick == Patrick Georgi patr...@georgi-clan.de wrote: Patrick I used to work on mtn-fast-import, which interprets the Patrick git-fast-import format and creates a monotone repository from Patrick it. I didn't work on export due to lack of need, and dropped

[Monotone-devel] Re: is monotone for me?

2010-06-27 Thread Gour
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 07:47:07 -0400 Stephen == stephen_le...@stephe-leake.org wrote: Stephen mtn works on Linux, Mac, and Win32 (native and Cygwin). Some Stephen features are not supported on Win32 native, but all work on Stephen Win32 Cygwin. What is missing on Win32? (not utterly important,

[Monotone-devel] Re: is monotone for me?

2010-06-27 Thread Gour
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:33:45 +0200 Ludovic == ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org wrote: Ludovic - Linus considered monotone and decided to write git instead Ludovic because monotone was too slow for his use, so lots of people Ludovic noe believe monotone is slow Heh, 'urban legends' :-) Ludovic -

Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: is monotone for me?

2010-06-27 Thread Aaron W. Hsu
Hey Gour, I would just like to put my viewpoint here as well. I run a fairly small installation here, with only about 20 branches, and only maybe five of those in active use. Some of them have high binary content, but the rest are all text. I'm self-hosted. My comments to your concerns are

[Monotone-devel] Re: is monotone for me?

2010-06-27 Thread Gour
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:57:25 +0200 Thomas == Thomas Keller m...@thomaskeller.biz wrote: Thomas Have you ever tried ikiwiki? This is a nice and very expandable Thomas (plugins) wiki engine which comes with support for different Thomas SCMs, amongst them monotone. Nope, but weas reading about

[Monotone-devel] Re: is monotone for me?

2010-06-27 Thread Lapo Luchini
Stephen Leake wrote: Obviously, it needs a medium-sized memory :). mtn uses sqlite for the backend database; that reads the entire database into memory. Uh? Entire DB in memory? I don't think it does... of course if it fits then access of the next users is faster, but that's normal filesystem

[Monotone-devel] Re: is monotone for me?

2010-06-27 Thread Lapo Luchini
Gour wrote: Thomas The server works quite well and fast - Thomas though it only serves a couple of smaller branches, one of them Thomas being guitone. Not bad. Maybe I should try to install some repo on my WF account and check it out. In my experience a server serving all my small projects

[Monotone-devel] Re: is monotone for me?

2010-06-27 Thread Gour
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 09:41:44 -0400 (EDT) Aaron == Aaron W. Hsu arcf...@sacrideo.us wrote: Aaron In the setup, which I mentioned above, I don't have a lot of Aaron concurrent users, but I run the server reliably an right now it Aaron is using about 16mb of memory. My database is only about 100MB

[Monotone-devel] Re: is monotone for me?

2010-06-27 Thread Gour
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 09:46:54 -0400 (EDT) Aaron == Aaron W. Hsu arcf...@sacrideo.us wrote: Aaron I have successfully used it as a substitute for command-line Aaron work for someone who had no idea about how to use the command Aaron line at all. Nice. Aaron Guitone is also not just for

[Monotone-devel] Re: is monotone for me?

2010-06-27 Thread Gour
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:49:49 +0200 (CEST) Richard == Richard Levitte rich...@levitte.org wrote: Richard on monotone.ca (which serves more than monotone, by the way), I Richard collected the following data for you: Thank you. All in all I must say that I'm very excited to see how user-friendly

Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: is monotone for me?

2010-06-27 Thread Stephen Leake
Gour g...@gour-nitai.com writes: On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 07:47:07 -0400 Stephen == stephen_le...@stephe-leake.org wrote: Stephen mtn works on Linux, Mac, and Win32 (native and Cygwin). Some Stephen features are not supported on Win32 native, but all work on Stephen Win32 Cygwin. What is