On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Wednesday 18 August 2004 16:31, Robert Watson wrote: > > A first test for any open > > source replacement for CVS in the FreeBSD project is that it be able > > to import our current history and workload efficiently. I believe > > last time this was attempted with Subversion, the importer ran at > > least a month before the person trying it gave up :-). > > For what its worth, the latest cvs2svn converter is at least two orders > of magnitude faster than when this test was run. I have a private CVS > test repository which used to take several days to convert on a fairly > slow machine. With the latest convertion script it only takes a few > hours. Last I looked, my primary concerns with Subversion were: - Cost to import full FreeBSD history. - That it promised the multi-way branching and merging in a future release, but did not yet have it. Do you know how things look with respect to the second issue? Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert_at_fledge.watson.org Principal Research Scientist, McAfee ResearchReceived on Wed Aug 18 2004 - 13:53:39 UTC
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