Re: [Chicken-hackers] chicken repo (intentionally) gone (revision control)

[Matthew Welland]

Just a data point to contribute. I use monotone to maintain changes to svn 
controlled code very successfully. For example I could check out the 
chicken sources via svn, import them (and history if desired) into 
monotone. I would maintain two branches in my monotone db, a branch tied to 
the official chicken tree and a branch for my changes. I do this with 
several projects at work with both cvs, rcs and svn repos on one side and 
monotone on the other and I love it. By maintaining two branches in 
monotone I can use propogate to let things diverge on one side for a while 
then fully propogate when it is time to converge. Everyone is happy with 
svn or rcs and I can use monotone for the same code and work on my laptop 
disconnected :-)

My largest monotone db is over 200MB (code/data size) and performance has 
been reasonable. Make sure to run "mtn inodeprints" if you are managing a 
large tree. 

One minor request for the svn repo would be to add ignores for the metadata 
directories for tools such as monotone (eg. _MTN). 

Matt
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On Thursday 09 August 2007 05:59:46 am Arto Bendiken wrote:
> On 8/8/07, felix winkelmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I'm somewhat fed up with darcs (performance, conflict handling)
> > and are evauating mercurial for personal use. But since we already
> > have a large and reliable repository and since svn is more widespread,
> > I'd like to use it for future development.
>
> This may have been mentioned the last time version control was
> discussed here on the list, but just in case, a worthwhile video to
> watch is Linus Torvalds presenting Git at Google:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
>
> I've myself also recently moved from using Darcs for my personal
> projects to instead using a combination of SVK (works pretty darn well
> with existing SVN repositories, but can be difficult to install due to
> numerous Perl dependencies) and Git. As I've understood it, and as
> Linus mentions in the video, Git was designed to be like Mercurial,
> but better. From my usage so far, and against my own Darcs backdrop,
> Git seems a most promising concept and implementation.



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