Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:59:45 +0100 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Subversion? (Re: HEADS UP: Importing csup into base) Message-ID: <86veurzvmm.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20060306102622.GB21025@tara.freenix.org> (Ollivier Robert's message of "Mon, 6 Mar 2006 11:26:22 %2B0100") References: <20060304141957.14716.qmail@web32705.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20060304152433.W61086@fledge.watson.org> <BA422F74-E7F9-4F53-9A88-B89E2255FF00@behanna.org> <200603051930.25957.peter@wemm.org> <20060306102622.GB21025@tara.freenix.org>
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Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> 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
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