2010/1/14 Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbh...@gentoo.org>: > In theory, yes. In practice, git is too slow to handle 30,000 files. > Even simple operations like git add become painful even if you put the > whole of portage on tmpfs since git does a stat() on every single file > in the repository with every operation. > [...] > Besides this, there is the problem of accommodating people who use a > subtree of gentoo-x86, and those who don't want the entire CVS history > on their hard drives. In summation, robbat2 needs *our* help in the > following:
Thanks! That was a nice overview of the remaining issues. Has anyone tested Mercurial to see how it compares, especially with respect to these issues? Cheers, -- Ben de Groot Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) ______________________________________________________
