Re: Kernel SCM saga..

Daniel Phillips
2005-04-08T23:38:28Z

On Friday 08 April 2005 04:38, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:41:29PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The huge number of changesets is the crucial point, there are good
> distributed SCM already but they are apparently not efficient enough at
> handling 60k changesets.
>
> We'd need a regenerated coherent copy of BKCVS to pipe into those SCM to
> evaluate how well they scale.
>
> OTOH if your git project already allows storing the data in there,
> that looks nice ;).

Hi Andrea,

For the immediate future, all we need is something than can _losslessly_
capture the new metadata that's being generated. That buys time to bring one
of the promising open source candidates up to full speed.

By the way, which one are you working on? :-)

Regards,

Daniel