On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 01:55:01PM -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: > > CVS doesn't do branching nor tags very well... > > > > __Problem: CVS__ > > > > CVS is one of the worst application ever created. The portage tree > > needs to move to subversion. A lot of the problems within the project > > would be solved by using a better SCM system. The previous problems > > regarding the Live Tree and Developer Growth would be solved, IMHO, by > > just switching. Branches Work. Tags Work. Reverts work. Moves > > work. I don't see any reason not to use it. It just plain works. > > Have you tried using SVN for the portage tree? I don't know if anybody > has recently, but in the past when people tried there were two > significant problems: SVN requires at least 2x the tree size for storage > on the local machine, and checkouts take something akin to an order of > magnitude longer than CVS. The former is annoying, but liveable, but > the latter is a deal-breaker.
Speaking of which, has anybody done any tests with svk? (http://svk.elixus.org) And: http://svk.elixus.org/?WhySVK -- it would be interesting to compare checkout performance on it as well. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
