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  • From: Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>
  • To: SM-Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] scm next steps
  • Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 15:49:40 -0500

On May 20, Arwed von Merkatz [v.merkatz AT gmx.net] wrote:
> On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 12:48:59PM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > > svk is ready. The size requirements are closer to p4, but still higher.
> > > The checkout directory with all four current branches is 425M, the .svk
> > > meta directory each checkout has is another 248M. This is without any
> > > real
> > > history. The initial checkout is for the 248M and takes quite a long
> > > time
> > > (it was close to 2 hours here). status/etc. commands are a good bit
> > > quicker than svn. I'll save the other comments and benchmarks for now
> > > but
> > > in general I don't like it nearly as well as git from an admin
> > > standpoint.
> > <snip>
> >
> > Thanks for setting that up, Jeremy. :)
>
> Agreed, thanks for the work Jeremy :)
>
> > I would go for leaving mercurial (hg) out, at least until the current
> > round of testing is done with Perforce, SVN/SVK, and git. To me git
> > seems to be doing quite well, with the only thing going for SVN/SVK is
> > it's currently more popular with more tools/front-ends for it and
> > Perforce already being setup and our developers familiar with it. :)
>
> Either we leave it out forever or we add it now.
> When this round of testing is done, we want to be _done_ with the whole
> SCM issue. We'll run the whole-grimoire test with the option of going
> back to p4, of course, but the idea is that we settle this for the
> foreseeable future.
> Personally I'd say we add it. We have a very strong contender with git,
> so adding additional systems is imho a good idea. It gives us another
> perspective on the whole thing. Subversion kinda disqualified itself
> with regards to scalability, so any system that can scale to our setup
> shouldn't be left out.
> Overall, I don't have a problem with this testing period taking another
> month or two. We want to have a good basis to judge the systems, and we
> want to switch to something we're reasonably sure of that it'll work for
> us in the future. Let's test until we're confident we know what system
> ot use, that'll take less time overall than doing this whole thing again
> in a year ;)

Ok, I'll set up hg if you want it. I may try to get git cvs working first,
I'm really curious to see how that performs.

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