From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:34:20 -0800 From: "Roman V. Shaposhnik" In-reply-to: <13426df10901290815u470ef46sba37c7f6652062e4@mail.gmail.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-id: <1233246860.4412.110.camel@goose.sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <5d375e920901272106v77866afeua36bb6dc8b7feeca@mail.gmail.com> <5d375e920901290412k3e48d87dy5261c9b1f1681127@mail.gmail.com> <13426df10901290815u470ef46sba37c7f6652062e4@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Sources Gone? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8e419b76-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 08:15 -0800, ron minnich wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:12 AM, Uriel 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.