> Am 14.05.2020 um 04:52 schrieb matthew sporleder <[email protected]>: > > > >> On May 13, 2020, at 10:11 PM, John Franklin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Apr 30, 2020, at 21:28, bch <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I thought the plan to move to HG hasn't been finalised yet, am I missing >>> something? Plus, why HG and not Fossil, if the end-result consumption is >>> via Git anyways? >>> >>> [...] >> >> There are scalability issues with Mercurial, too. I cloned NetBSD src on a >> 1GB RAM, 1GB swap, 4 CPU VM (Debian Buster) using git from the GitHub >> project and from anonhg.netbsd.org. >> >> [...] > > This argument does not work. I went through the same goalpost moving exercise > years ago and martin@ even got some efficiency patches into git as a result, > but the super low memory shallow clone is not even good enough.
I think the argument works very well - at least to stay at CVS forever >:-) I doubt that you'll find a modern solution running fine on any 4M computer. Network filesystems, cross compilers etc. where invented to support machines which can't provide all required resources for a job on their own. Cheers -- Jens Rehsack - [email protected]
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