[Pkg-xen-devel] SCM and Mailing list input [u]

[Yvette Chanco]

On 2/14/06, Ralph Passgang <ralph at debianbase.de> wrote:

> > >     I'd also like to get input on choice of SCM to use, whether we
> > > should stick to a centralized SCM like svn or cvs; or should we go
> > > distributed and use mercurial as xen upstream does?
> >
> > Personnaly, like I wrote to you, I use Subversion, so it will be quicker
> > for me if we use it, than to discover another SCM. But if something like
> > mercurial can help us (and I don't have enough information right now to
> > know this) and is better for our work, I am not against learn another
> > software.
>
> I don't really have a favourite scm myself, so csv/svn/mercuial is all fine
> for me.
>
> but maybe there are two (small) things that would be against mercurial:
>
> - mecrucial is not available for debian sarge (I know, not a hard task to
> backport it).
>
> - mecrurial seems to blow a repository a lot.
> I think this related to the amount of files that are in the repository (so for
> just the /debian directory this would probably not a real problem). At least
> a xen unstable tree with all .hg-stuff is about 60 - 70mb in size. a clean
> xen source + debian directory without any mercurical stuff in only 3,8 -
> 4,2mb. of course the 60-70mb doesn't need to get transfered over the internet
> all the time, but in real life a lot of people don't care and always check
> out the whole tree again and again instead of just updating the local copy.
>
> but of course the fact that xen uses mercurial is something that would
> recommend mecurial for the /debian stuff too.
>
> If someone wants to checkout xen and after that the /debian repository then
> only one tool is needed and maybe in future we could also try to merge the
> debian directory with the original xen upstream, because that would help to
> always keep the debian support close to the upstream.
>
> It's not realistic to believe that not for more or less every new xen version
> also at least some files in the debian subdir needs an update. it could help
> to do that directly in xen unstable, I think. But I don't know if Ian Pratt
> and all others also would like to see that happen in future. But maybe it's
> better to do one step after the other ;-P
>
> --Ralph
>
> > This was my 2c,
> >
> > Regards,

I'll be happy to use whatever the consensus is.

Since upstream has always seemed eager to work closely with a
Debian/Xen team (if such a thing came about), Ralph's comments about
mercurial seem reasonable.
--
-Yvette