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I know this sounds weird coming from a LISP developer, but in the interest of leveraging mainstream knowledge I insist that we used either darcs or subversion.<BR>
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On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 16:23 +0000, Ian Eslick wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Well, its not as if we have that many developers. I think the idea is that we can have individual developer branchs, a stable branch and a release branch. Developers update stable when a set of changes are, uh, stable. That way we can avoid branches getting too far out of date and sidestep the simultaneous change issue.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Ian</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">From: "Attila Lendvai" <<A HREF="mailto:attila.lendvai@gmail.com">attila.lendvai@gmail.com</A>></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:07:30 </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">To:<A HREF="mailto:eslick@csail.mit.edu">eslick@csail.mit.edu</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Subject: Re: public_html/darcs in c-l.net elephant</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> What conditions lead to performance issues? Volume of patches or type of patches?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Is it due to haskell or the underlying algorithms?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">in my experience the only problem was when two branches were actively</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">developed and the same files at the same positions received several</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">changes. then trying to pull these (nested conflicting) changes into</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the other repo ended up in some exponential algorithms instead of</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">bailing out and marking the conflicts.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">but other then this, those "performance issues" everyone talks about</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">are non-existent.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">i've asked the darcs guys, and they know about this issue and have</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">solutions, too, but as far as i know it's not yet implemented.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">hth,</FONT>
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