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Re: github.com/NetBSD/src 5 days old?



On 23.05.2020 02:08, matthew sporleder wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 5:57 PM Greg A. Woods <woods%planix.ca@localhost> wrote:
>>
>> At Thu, 21 May 2020 15:11:41 -0400, Andrew Cagney <andrew.cagney%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>> Subject: Re: github.com/NetBSD/src 5 days old?
>>>
>>> The details are all found here:
>>> https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-repository/2020/02/17/msg000685.html
>>
>> That just says what might happen (and what could/should happen at the
>> same time), not why (nor how the decision was arrived at).
>>
>>>> I've never found anything there explaining the actual rationale for Hg.
>>
>> --
> 
> Joerg is the one doing all of the work and he wants to land on hg.
> 
> Every other "justification" or benchmark or whatever is pretty much a
> lie.  Especially now, five years later, when git has gotten better and
> better at big repos.
> 

NetBSD also got better with large git repos (thanks to the work of
Andrew Doran). One year ago it took ages to commit something locally or
to get "git status". Today it's usable.

> Matt
> 
> p.s. this whole thing reached a head (Core statement on version
> control systems) in Jan 2015
> https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-repository/2015/01/04/msg000497.html
> 


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