On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 19:58:36 +0000 hasufell <hasuf...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Andrew Savchenko: > > On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:49:15 +0200 Alexander Berntsen wrote: > >> On 10/06/14 17:45, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > >>> I don't know why CVS is still used for Gentoo main repository, > >>> probably some infrastructure elements depends deeply on its > >>> internals, because I see of no other reason why Git is still not > >>> used despite efforts ongoing for last several years. > >> Infra can probably speak for themselves, but Portage with its history > >> is crazy big, and git is not great with crazy big projects. > > > > Why are you saying that git is inefficient with large projects? It > > was developed with efficiency in mind in the first place. And > > kernel guys will likely disagree with "git is not great with crazy > > big projects" statement. And with git kernel bisection and other > > complicated (in terms or data manipulation) operations are quite > > fast even on old hardware. > > > > Best regards, > > Andrew Savchenko > > > > interesting read: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/189776 > > Does any1 know what fb currently uses or if any of these issues have > been resolved? > Mercurial + custom plugins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlguc63cRXg -- Sergei
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