Re: [SVN-MIGRATION] Steps for the SVN migration

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Lars Strojny <[email protected]> wrote:

> 2.) Single repository, multiple repositories. Do we want to use a single
> repository for all things PHP, including PEAR, PECL etc.?
>
> Pro:
>   * It is how it is currently
>   * Only one repository to maintain and administer (e.g. hooks are
>     configured for everything or for nothing)
>
> Contra:
>   * Multiple repositories might be easier to scale, as they can be
>     distributed on various hosts. Not sure if this is likely to become
>     an issue
>   * Easier to include new projects and to move current projects to
>     another hosts if the situation requires such a change
>   * One repository itself does not become that huge and can be shared
>     over partitions, discs (while this is possible with symlinking old
>     revision data too, it is not very handy)

There are couple more things:

Pro:
* There is a need, sometimes, to copy/move files between pecl and
php-src. Single repository would allow to keep complete history of
such files.

Contra:
* SVN uses version-number for the whole repository, not for the file,
which leads to fast-growing number of versions.


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Alexey Zakhlestin
http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/