[Ffmpeg-devel] SVN dump

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 12:08:04AM +0200, Aurelien Jacobs wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:33:14 -0700 (PDT)
> Trent Piepho <xyzzy at speakeasy.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Why don't just switch to GIT ? :) I wonder what does Michael thinks about it.
> > >
> > > main problem is i know very little about git
> > > but iam surely in favor of getting rid of svn, ill move "learning git" a
> > > little up in my todo list
> > 
> > There is another SCM called Mercurial that is very similar to git.  In some
> > cases it is faster and in some slower.  However, it is less complex and
> > easier to use.  There are few Linux kernel sub-systems (like v4l-dvb and
> > ALSA) that use Mercurial for the project, and then export their patches
> > upstream to git for inclusion in the kernel.
> > 
> > They are both much better than svn.  diff, annotate, log, etc.  don't use a
> > remote server and are far faster.  It's also much nicer for devs who don't
> > have commit access.
> 
> Absolutely agree.
> A few interesting facts about Mercurial:
>  - size of the whole ffmpeg history: 14 MB
>  - size of a working directory (ie. the whole history + a full checkout):
>    27 MB (to be compared to the 29 MB of a svn checkout which contains no
>    history)
>  - comparable speed to GIT
>  - less complex than GIT
>  - much better support for some plateform (namely win32) than GIT

I'm opposed to Mercurial unless you're willing to write a portable
implementation in C or Bourne shell + POSIX utils. I don't have Python
and it's not terribly portable... Last time I tried to build it I
remember it being hell...

Also, FWIW, I'd strongly prefer systems that can be used fully online,
without having to keep a full local copy of the repo. I often use
machines that don't have hundreds of megabytes (or worse) of space
free for a local copy of the repo... both old machines and shells with
limited quotas. CVS->SVN already made my source trees grow 2x and I'd
rather not have them grow 100x on top of that...

Rich