On Wed, 2005-09-14 13:37:50 +0100, Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 11:58:58AM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > monotone > > Is quite nice'n'easy to use for CVS users, you'll have quite a > > fast start. The network sync protocol can be a bit lengthy at > > a time, but it works. It's acceptable in speed, but not > > exactly "fast". Written in C, code can easily be read and > > hacked. > > Git has taken some ideas from Monotone. Though monotone uses a (berkeley?) DB to store all objects... > > arch > > Arch can do almost everything; it's network sync protocol is > > quite fast (can use several transports and will make use of > > caches). However, it's not exactly easy to use because of it's > > thousands of commands and it's project name conventions are, > > um, ugly. It has very good merging capabilities, but it's > > heavy use of local caches forces you to have loads of free HDD > > space. > > Git is a huge diskspace consumer also unless repositories are converted. > For example, the Linux kernel repository from CVS did inflate itself to > over 4GB and over 340,000 files. After packing I got that down to like > 170MB. Not bad compared to the some 770MB of RCS files it's using > currently and < 11s checkout from git can't be wrong either ;-) Well, Arch *may* cache any tree version you check out. So take a source tree and check-out some 15 tree versions, you may end up with a really *hugh* cache. You're free to delete it, though... > > To get fixes/port updates/subsystem updates upstream to Linus, GIT is > > the way[tm] to go, so we'd try to get familiar with it. > > The other accepted currency of the trade are still simple patches, see > http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/The_perfect_patch. ACK. But unless you've got the perfect Patch Queue Manager that'll re-diff and re-send your patches automatically to Linus, you keep on doing some manual work or at least starting your scripts ever and ever again :) MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@xxxxxxxxxx . +49-172-7608481 _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg _ _ O für einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Internet! | im Irak! O O O ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA));
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