Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: SCM choices

2007-06-04 Thread Olivier Galibert
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 03:30:37AM +0300, Stratos Psomadakis wrote: > but i think linus is too biased against other scms... He is biased against technical choices done in other SCMs, which is not exactly the main thing. Specifically, from what I can see, he hates: - centralization (cvs, svn...)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: SCM choices

2007-06-03 Thread Stratos Psomadakis
O/H Marijn Schouten (hkBst) έγραψε: > There seemed to be still some doubt as to the benefits of distributed > SCMs. > Fortunately Linus himself, at a talk at Google a few weeks back, > explained the > benefits of being distributed and said fun and interesting things > about git > and other source c

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: SCM choices

2007-06-03 Thread Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
On 6/3/07, Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Linus is biased towards the Linux development model, which is highly > atypical. Better said as "git is pretty good for developing linux", would it fit our needs? The only problem I see is getting a good documentation a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: SCM choices

2007-06-03 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Linus is biased towards the Linux development model, which is highly > atypical. Better said as "git is pretty good for developing linux", would it fit our needs? The only problem I see is getting a good documentation about using git sourcemage[1] made something nice even

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: SCM choices

2007-06-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 19:00:44 +0200 "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There seemed to be still some doubt as to the benefits of distributed > SCMs. Fortunately Linus himself, at a talk at Google a few weeks > back, explained the benefits of being distributed and said fun and > i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: SCM choices

2007-06-03 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There seemed to be still some doubt as to the benefits of distributed SCMs. Fortunately Linus himself, at a talk at Google a few weeks back, explained the benefits of being distributed and said fun and interesting things about git and other source code

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: SCM choices

2007-04-03 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 19:30 +0200, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: > I just don't think it is obvious what tests should be performed. Furthermore > the difference between > the different systems is not just performance, but also features. So we need > to discuss what > standards any candidate SCM

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: SCM choices

2007-04-03 Thread Roy Marples
On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:30:29 +0200 "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Therefore I'd like to > know what architectures need to be supported by a candidate SCM. Oh that's an easy one. All arches that Gentoo supports. Also it needs to support FreeBSD :) Thanks Roy -- gentoo-d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: SCM choices

2007-04-03 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 11:52 +0200, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: >> So in light of all that I don't think it is wasteful to restart this >> discussion. > > I do. > > Want to bring it back up? Go perform some tests and repo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: SCM choices

2007-04-03 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 11:52 +0200, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: > So in light of all that I don't think it is wasteful to restart this > discussion. I do. Want to bring it back up? Go perform some tests and report back with some data if you feel prior efforts weren't done properly or reproduc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: SCM choices

2007-03-31 Thread Alec Warner
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Kevin F. Quinn wrote: >> On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:58:59 -0400 >> Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Please, everyone, go back and read the actual *facts* that were >>> discovered using copies of *our* repositories before going arou