If memory serves me right, Craig Boston wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 05:05:38PM +0200, Divacky Roman wrote: > > wasnt here some discussion about moving FreeBSD to subversion (as some other > > projects did - samba, mono etc.)? and subversion solves this... > > Yes, a few people have looked at it from time to time (raises hand as > one of the guilty parties). > > The last I heard, subversion did not scale well to the massive amount of > files that are in the FreeBSD repository. IIRC it's been a while since > this was tested, so it may or may not be true anymore. SVK may > partially address this by bypassing libwc.
Well, someone's part-way there with a Subversion mirror of src/. From http://www.freebsd.org/support.html: A public Subversion mirror of the FreeBSD src/ CVS repository is provided at svn://svn.clkao.org/freebsd/. A web interface is also available. This is intended for people who would like to try the svk distributed version control system. This of course doesn't include ports/ or doc/, so it doesn't really answer the scalability question. > Also, repository size is a big issue (no pun intended). If adding a few > hundred megs for repo-copies is prohibitively expensive, I don't think > increasing the repo size by many gigabytes would go over very well. > Subversion repositories can easily be several times the size of a CVS > repository containing the same data. This is dependent (among other things) on the nature of the files in the repository and which repository back-end is used. I did a conversion at ${REALJOB} in December where I converted 1.3GB of CVS repository to about 1.5GB in Subversion. For the curious, the back-end was FSFS, and an earlier test conversion using the BDB back-end took about 2.1GB. I know this is smaller than the FreeBSD repository. I have this vague, handwavy feeling (colored no doubt by positive experiences using it at ${REALJOB}) that Subversion, as well as the conversion tool (cvs2svn) have matured a bit since the last time this topic came up. But I'm not necessarily advocating a switch either. Cheers, Bruce.
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