From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 6 10:59:51 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6A7016A420 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 10:59:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32ED043D46 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 10:59:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BF992083; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 11:59:46 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Tests: AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Spam-Learn: ham X-Spam-Score: -2.4/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on tim.des.no Received: from xps.des.no (des.no [80.203.243.180]) by tim.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DB842080; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 11:59:46 +0100 (CET) Received: by xps.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 499A733C43; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 11:59:46 +0100 (CET) From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Ollivier Robert References: <20060304141957.14716.qmail@web32705.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20060304152433.W61086@fledge.watson.org> <200603051930.25957.peter@wemm.org> <20060306102622.GB21025@tara.freenix.org> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:59:45 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20060306102622.GB21025@tara.freenix.org> (Ollivier Robert's message of "Mon, 6 Mar 2006 11:26:22 +0100") Message-ID: <86veurzvmm.fsf@xps.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Subversion? (Re: HEADS UP: Importing csup into base) X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:59:52 -0000 Ollivier Robert writes: > According to Peter Wemm: > > 1) It has fairly good detached operation modes. You can do logs, diffs, > > reverts, etc while detached. It does this by keeping metadata and a > > small number of revisions cached locally. > In my opinion, it is not enough. You can't svn commit on a detached mode. > You can't work as if you were connected, commit several csets, go back one > and so on. That's too limiting. you can if you're using svk as client. > > 5) And this is the kicker.. most client metadata is kept on the client! > > This is the very reason why we cannot use perforce for freebsd.org for > > everybody. The number of checkouts is way too large. svn keeps most > > of this on the client, so this scales easily with more clients. > Including a full copy of all files and more metadata. not if you use svk (on the other hand, it keeps a full copy of the repo) DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no