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Re: [Monotone-devel] Projects using monotone?
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Nathaniel Smith |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Projects using monotone? |
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Fri, 20 May 2005 12:03:07 -0700 |
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Thanks for your feedback!
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 07:18:04PM +0200, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:
> * monotone is quite slow on certain operations. Committing a change to
> the cocoon branch can take 5 min on a beefy server.
Hmm, strange; in my tests, committing a change to the 2.6 kernel
source tree takes ~4s on my desktop.
Perhaps you need to turn on "inodeprints"? (Make sure you have 0.19
installed, and run "monotone refresh_inodeprints" in your working
copies.)
> * We've had problems with merging though this is much improved. We
> sometimes have to merge by hand.
Ah, well, merging is definitely a work in progress, as you know if
you've been following the list :-)
> * Developing decent SCM policies based on the monotone approach takes
> some time if your team is used to something like CVS. For example, what
> constitutes a good component model for monotone? In CVS we used modules.
> We're experimenting with branches in monotone for this but still aren't
> sure if it we have the best approach.
Nod. Be interested to hear your experiences/what you come up with.
> * Not having monotone integrated into an IDE turns many developers off.
> Many of our developers like the Eclipse CVS integration and find it
> painfully to have to use a CLI like monotone.
Well, people keep saying they want to write an Eclipse plugin for
it... hope they're listening... ;-)
> In the end we're using it mainly because it shows so much promise. Its
> still rough going sometimes.
Well, we'll try :-). Thanks.
-- Nathaniel
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