> As for moving packages by hand vs. using a tool, that's not really infra's > call. If you were asking about CVS vs. SVN, I have been and remain > opposed > to using SVN for gentoo-x86 until someone can offer a whole lot of > assurances around SVN's ability to manage a repo of our size. (1.3GB, > 216,000+ files and counting)
KDE moved to Subversion earlier this year, with a few million lines of source code and hundreds of branches and tags. It did it flawlessly and maintained over 400,000 commit history items. I don't think stability is the biggest hurdle here. I think the conversion process will be - they had to write a lot of code from scratch to handle maintaining all of that history (the stock cvs2svn wasn't robust enough), and they had to run the conversion process a number of times, find the bugs, rework their conversion code, and rerun. It was a lengthy process (a few weeks I believe). It's going to require someone to actually write the conversion code and provide a proof of concept conversion. If anyone's up to the challenge, I imagine contacting their sysadmins would be a good start. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
