Re: [PHP-DEV] Choosing a distributed version control system for PHP - problems

2011-08-23 Thread Lester Caine
David Muir wrote: It would seem however that a hybrid system supporting both is > probably still some way off:( > There's something weird in HG's network stack. I tried doing grabbing an svn repository with hg, and it took over an hour to get part of the way through. Bazaar was able to grab the

Re: [PHP-DEV] Choosing a distributed version control system for PHP - problems

2011-08-22 Thread David Muir
On 22/08/11 17:44, Lester Caine wrote: > Lester Caine wrote: >> Just for the record ... the libreoffice clone I started 9 hours ago is >> still going strong, and I'm estimating that it will finish some time >> tomorrow afternoon, another 20 hours or so. A single huge repo is going >> to take time t

Re: [PHP-DEV] Choosing a distributed version control system for PHP - problems

2011-08-22 Thread Lester Caine
Lester Caine wrote: Just for the record ... the libreoffice clone I started 9 hours ago is still going strong, and I'm estimating that it will finish some time tomorrow afternoon, another 20 hours or so. A single huge repo is going to take time to handle? Or am I doing something wrong? All I've d

Re: [PHP-DEV] Choosing a distributed version control system for PHP - problems

2011-08-18 Thread Lester Caine
David Soria Parra wrote: On 2011-08-18, Lester Caine wrote: > Again neither of those seem to be using 'superprojects', just the odd library > included as a submodule. It seems that the statements in the RFC were not clear enough, I'll add some explanation. We will very probably not use subm

Re: [PHP-DEV] Choosing a distributed version control system for PHP - problems

2011-08-18 Thread David Soria Parra
On 2011-08-18, Lester Caine wrote: > Again neither of those seem to be using 'superprojects', just the odd library > included as a submodule. It seems that the statements in the RFC were not clear enough, I'll add some explanation. We will very probably not use submodules in php-src anyway. Oth

Re: [PHP-DEV] Choosing a distributed version control system for PHP - problems

2011-08-18 Thread Pierre Joye
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Lester Caine wrote: > This was the problem I hit last year. A nice CVS repo got translated into > some 200 git repo's, but there still is no easy way of building a 'project' > that pulls the say a core build with all the essential modules. You end up > writing sc

Re: [PHP-DEV] Choosing a distributed version control system for PHP - problems

2011-08-18 Thread Lester Caine
Pierre Joye wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Lester Caine wrote: > Pierre Joye wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Lester Cainewrote: >>> >>> >Pierre Joye wrote: >> >>Another great example of a successful is the freedesktop project. >>

Re: [PHP-DEV] Choosing a distributed version control system for PHP - problems

2011-08-18 Thread Pierre Joye
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Lester Caine wrote: > Pierre Joye wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Lester Caine  wrote: >>> >>> >  Pierre Joye wrote: >> >>  Another great example of a successful is the freedesktop project. >> They >>  have 100s of sub projec

Re: [PHP-DEV] Choosing a distributed version control system for PHP - problems

2011-08-18 Thread Lester Caine
Pierre Joye wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Lester Caine wrote: > Pierre Joye wrote: >> >> Another great example of a successful is the freedesktop project. They >> have 100s of sub project and each of them have modules. > > Can I suggest you have a closer look at this conversion

Re: [PHP-DEV] Choosing a distributed version control system for PHP - problems

2011-08-18 Thread Pierre Joye
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Lester Caine wrote: > Pierre Joye wrote: >> >> Another great example of a successful is the freedesktop project. They >> have 100s of sub project and each of them have modules. > > Can I suggest you have a closer look at this conversion Pierre and work out > what i

Re: [PHP-DEV] Choosing a distributed version control system for PHP - problems

2011-08-18 Thread Lester Caine
Pierre Joye wrote: Another great example of a successful is the freedesktop project. They have 100s of sub project and each of them have modules. Can I suggest you have a closer look at this conversion Pierre and work out what is currently missing from it ... hint - as a new developer how do I

Re: [PHP-DEV] Choosing a distributed version control system for PHP - problems

2011-08-17 Thread Lester Caine
Pierre Joye wrote: However, I fear that Lester is mixing topics in all possible ways and that's slightly confusing for outsiders. Explain . -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.

Re: [PHP-DEV] Choosing a distributed version control system for PHP - problems

2011-08-17 Thread Pierre Joye
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Larry Garfield wrote: > I'd be happy to put people in touch with members of the team that handled > the Drupal git migration earlier this year.  They successfully migrated > 1 > million lines of code with a 10 year history across a few thousand > repositories from

Re: [PHP-DEV] Choosing a distributed version control system for PHP - problems

2011-08-17 Thread Larry Garfield
I'd be happy to put people in touch with members of the team that handled the Drupal git migration earlier this year. They successfully migrated > 1 million lines of code with a 10 year history across a few thousand repositories from CVS to Git without a hitch (at least no hitch that the outsi

[PHP-DEV] Choosing a distributed version control system for PHP - problems

2011-08-17 Thread Lester Caine
At the risk of being criticised again, I will lay out a couple of problems that need to be addressed as part of making any progress on DVCS support. The first question is 'Do we need DVCS?' The answer is simple - yes - but what and how is not so clear cut. (Bare with me ...) This leads on to 'W