New VCS Choice; SCM SIG

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 11:23 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 17:03 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 16:20 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > > Le Mar 23 janvier 2007 15:00, Ralf Corsepius a écrit :
> > > 
> > > > So, all in all, you should better make all these VCS stuff entirely
> > > > transparent (Implement applications around it), or you'd better off
> > > > using something standardized, ... which ATM, would reduce the choice to
> > > > svn or CVS.
> > > 
> > > A lot of big projects (Linux, Xorg, Java VM, etc)
> > ... all comparatively small in comparison to Fedora ...
> > 
> > A Fedora package VCS is comparatively simple, but it's BIG, very BIG.
> 
> Big how?
> 
> Storage size?
Yes.

>  (I doubt it given that the tarballs for the packages
> aren't even stored in the SCM.  They're stored in the lookaside cache.)
Depends on the SCM.

Add the file sizes and the administrational stuff to the SCM and it's
several 10's GB in size.

> Number of files?
No.

> Number of users?
No.

> What exactly do you mean by big?

Storage - What the "FE buildsystem" does is more a flat database but a
real SCM, with 10's of dozens of branches and 10000's of microscopic
differences between files.

Ralf