Re: Subversion

On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 03:17  pm, Andy Lester wrote:

> :16 PM +0100 7/31/03, James A. Duncan wrote:
>> On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 02:36  pm, Arthur Bergman wrote:
>>> Committing two files took 1 minute 22 second yesterday, a checkout 
>>> is extremely painfully slow. I am very close to saying it is a 
>>> failed experiment and either go to p4 or cvs for the time being.
>
> Do we know WHY it took 82 seconds to commit the files?  I'm not sure 
> we want to simply hand-wave Arthur's bad day and say "OK, svn sucks."
>

More like a bad two weeks.

>
>> p4 will be more scalable, but do Robert and Ask have a working p4 
>> repository on perl.org or will we need to go through ActiveState? How 
>> much admin work is p4 or does it just run?  Of course Robert and Ask 
>> are probably better people to answer these questions....
>
> I'm really uncomfortable with p4 and its proprietariness, both in the 
> software, and that we Mere Mortal p5pers are stuck with the odd 
> snapshot, and can't get at the repository directly.  I'd really like 
> to be able to SEE revision histories of the files.
>

I agree with this.

Arthur