From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261889AbVDGHoZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 03:44:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261916AbVDGHoZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 03:44:25 -0400 Received: from cimice4.lam.cz ([212.71.168.94]:22748 "EHLO vagabond.light.src") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261889AbVDGHoT (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 03:44:19 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 09:44:08 +0200 From: Jan Hudec To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Kernel SCM saga.. Message-ID: <20050407074407.GA25194@vagabond> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:42:08 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > PS. Don't bother telling me about subversion. If you must, start reading > up on "monotone". That seems to be the most viable alternative, but don't > pester the developers so much that they don't get any work done. They are > already aware of my problems ;) I have looked at most systems currently available. I would suggest following for closer look on: 1) GNU Arch/Bazaar. They use the same archive format, simple, have the concepts right. It may need some scripts or add ons. When Bazaar-NG is ready, it will be able to read the GNU Arch/Bazaar archives so switching should be easy. 2) SVK. True, it is built on subversion, but adds all the distributed features necessary. It keeps mirror of the repository localy (but can mirror only some branches), but BitKeeper did that too. It just hit 1.0beta1, but the development is progressing rapidly. There was a post about ability to track changeset dependencies lately on their mailing-list. I have looked at Monotone too, of course, but I did not find any way for doing cherry-picking (ie. skipping some changes and pulling others) in it and I feel it will need more rework of the meta-data before it is possible. As for the sqlite backend, I'd not consider that a problem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec --IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCVOTHRel1vVwhjGURAi9QAKCbDO1komd7YkcDgj/WqLLsOL+dzgCgvHpZ 3HwSeiOpvVHASq4elDHBKn0= =C1RL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o--