From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jon Smirl" Subject: Re: Figured out how to get Mozilla into git Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 16:56:17 -0400 Message-ID: <9e4733910606091356w391b4fdao23db5b2ce3c3e282@mail.gmail.com> References: <9e4733910606081917l11354e49q25f0c4aea40618ea@mail.gmail.com> <46a038f90606082006t5c6a5623q4b9cf7b036dad1e5@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910606091113vdc6ab06l2d3582cb82b8fd09@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910606091317p26d66579mdf93db293f93fb50@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Martin Langhoff" , git X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 09 22:56:25 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Foo1l-0008KP-Bs for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 22:56:21 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965290AbWFIU4S (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 16:56:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965294AbWFIU4S (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 16:56:18 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com ([64.233.162.201]:18169 "EHLO nz-out-0102.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965290AbWFIU4R (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 16:56:17 -0400 Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 13so791800nzn for ; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:56:17 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=VYD4VMHhz/RliKd+R6JK3+MOmb/eh8hC0gkBPxWmVDTRmBKB1qDv8CW+8hOPLpirjIwNwl6WmKvSUrg98nPseGpd08duuawC/ukW8ZqEoc5cCLEXX5R+ftmjzFtiYNUetgtLsovucLeJP6njHH7SITDZRpxul2vIKsSmrZfSZck= Received: by 10.36.104.15 with SMTP id b15mr4734920nzc; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:56:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.37.15 with HTTP; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:56:17 -0700 (PDT) To: "Linus Torvalds" In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 6/9/06, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I haven't come up with anything that is likely to result in Mozilla > > switching over to git. Right now it takes three days to convert the > > tree. The tree will have to be run in parallel for a while to convince > > everyone to switch. I don't have a solution to keeping it in sync in > > near real time (commits would still go to CVS). Most Mozilla > > developers are interested but the infrastructure needs some help. > > Sure. That said, I pretty much guarantee that the size issues will be much > much worse for any other distributed SCM. > > If Mozilla doesn't need the distributed thing, then SVN is probably the > best choice. It's still a total piece of crap, but hey, if crap (== > centralized) is what people are used to, a few billion flies can't be > wrong ;) They need the distributed thing whether they realize it or not. Some of the external projects like songbird and nvu are vulnerable to drift since they are running their own repositories. Once a few move/renames happen they can't easily stay in sync anymore. It has been over a year since NVU was merged back into the trunk. That is the same reason I want it, so that I can work on stuff locally and have a repository. The core staff doesn't have this problem because they can make all the branches they want in the main repository. > If you got your import done, is there some place I can rsync it from, and > at least I can make sure that everything works fine for a repo that size.. > One day the Mozilla people will notice that they really _really_ want the > distribution, and they'll figure out quickly enough that SVK doesn't cut > it, I suspect. It would be better to rsync Martins copy, he has a lot more bandwidth. It will take over a day to copy it off my cable modem. I'm signed up to get FIOS as soon as they turn it on in my neighborhood, it's already wired on the poles. > > Linus > -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com