On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 02:46:12PM -0400, Daniel Berlin wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Joe Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 02:01:46PM -0400, Paul Koning wrote: > > > > > However, if GCC proposes an official switch to a dVCS, RMS will push bzr. > > That doesn't mean he gets his way; he wasn't happy with the svn switch > > because svn clearly isn't GNU (it's Apache-licensed). > > bzr is simply unusable for a repository the size of gcc (though they > sometimes claim otherwise). > It couldn't even convert the gcc repository from scratch last time i > tried it, and what it left me with (30k revisions) took *forever* to > perform any operation on (IE literally hours to run log commands).
Thanks for the data; that will be a good answer for RMS if he asks us to switch to it. > They could have made massive strides since then (this was a little > over a year ago), but I wouldn't trust anything with that large of a > scaling issue to have solved it in such a short time. It might be interesting to repeat the experiment, but what we have with subversion isn't broken, so there's no need to fix it.
