[Ffmpeg-devel] SVN dump
Aurelien Jacobs
aurel
Mon Apr 16 02:14:44 CEST 2007
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 19:29:19 -0400
Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> 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.
AFAIR, Python is written in portable C ;-)
> I don't have Python and it's not terribly portable...
Any example of relevant platform which is not supported ?
This list already seems pretty long and contains quite some "exotic" arch:
http://www.python.org/download/other/
> 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...
Reread the above points... A Mercurial checkout including full history
is smaller than a simple svn checkout !
FWIW, I'd strongly prefer systems that can be used fully offline,
with a full local copy of the repo. I often do some developments on
my laptop without network connection, and SVN is mostly useless in
such a situation.
Aurel
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