Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:01:04 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and onwards Message-ID: <20041110120104.GB75769@tara.freenix.org> In-Reply-To: <20041107093907.GK79646@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> References: <418C0EED.1060301@freebsd.org> <87oeibnp4r.fsf@beeblebrox.rfc1149.net> <20041107093907.GK79646@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
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According to Peter Jeremy: > What facilities are there to replicate the repository (ala CVSup or > CTM)? Publishing the repository is all very nice but doesn't help > someone who wants off-line access. There are several to achieve that but remember first that Arch being a distributed system, there are several repositories, all equal. The need that we have to have a blessed one (for integration, release, and so on) would be represented by a special archive (hosted on repoman) managed by RE. > Can it manage renaming files/directories? Yes. It even records permissions changes. > How does it handle 3-way merging? Yes. > Does it support merging branches back into the mainline without > duplicating the branch content? Yes. > What advantages does it have over CVS and/or Perforce? Dsitributed meaning that anyone can branch out of any archive and work even on a laptop on a plane, committing to that archive and merge afterwards with another archive for "publication". > How would you like to provide some real results of running GNU Arch > against the FreeBSD CVS repository: > - time to convert the FreeBSD CVS respository into an Arch repository. > - size of the resultant Arch repository. > - time to checkout HEAD src > - time to checkout RELENG_3 src > - amount of metadata associated with the above checkouts > - time to tag "src" or "ports" (eg for a release) > - time to checkin a 1 or 2 line change in one file > - time to checkin a large change (various changes in say 50 files). This is tremendous work as Arch and CVS don't manage modules the same way and I don't have time to do such benchmarking :( -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr Darwin snuadh.freenix.org Kernel Version 7.6.0: Sun Oct 10 12:05:27 PDT 2004
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