Re: svn management, git, etc
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 03:59:13AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 06:12:19PM +0000, David Nusinow wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> [...]
> > he's got a lot of experience. Either way, I'm 100% unwilling to do any sort
> > of switch until after we're frozen for etch, and even then there are issues
> > like where to host it that need to be solved.
>
> I've complained a lot about SVN in the past; however, a lot of my complaints
> have to do more with the way we're using it. The SVN repo is hosted on a dsl
> connection, which makes it quite slow to do a check-out; on top of that, we
> need to deal w/ 3 separate branches (trunk, 7.1, and vendor) in order to work
> with it. And finally, we're tracking upstream's source as well, which makes
> for a whole lot of unnecessary stuff that must go across the network (and
> sit on my hard drive). Working with SVN would be a lot less of a hassle if
> the repository was a fraction of the size that it is now.
External xsfbs modules are also time-consuming. I rant against them whenever
I do an update of the whole tree ;)
But more generally, I guess that my rants come from some frustration on
my side, it is no fun for me to hack on X. It used to be too big, now
it is modular but still complex, one has to understand what are all those
branches and who can upload what. My feeling is that I spend less time
on hacking than on trying to understand how to do it the XSF way.
So David, do what you want, I have no strong opinion on anything related to
SCM, but please let us have fun. This is surely what you want too, I hope
it will happen soon.
Denis
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