Re: [9fans] Sources Gone?

["Roman V. Shaposhnik" <rvs@sun.com>]

On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 08:15 -0800, ron minnich wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:12 AM, Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > All this has been solved by git and hg; and git and hg would *never*
> > wipe out your local files simply because the backing store for the
> > repository you are pulling from happens to break,
>
> Have you used git much?

I do ;-)

> Sure, it's nice. Have you tried it when it
> hits 6 gbyte size as we have here, and repo is filled with binaries,
> not just source?

We hit exactly those very problems when trying to evaluate Git
for a huge internal project with a history going back to '89. We found
very attractive solutions in Git (but not in Mercurial or Bazaar at that
time) for all the issues you've identified. YMMV, of course, but I can
share more of my experience off the list, since the subject has
absolutely nothing to do with Plan9.

Thanks,
Roman.

P.S. In all fairness, the evaluation happened about a year ago. I hear
that Mercurial has improved since then. It is also possible that Git
deteriorated, although I doubt it.