Re: Moving to Octave Forge to mercurial

[marco atzeri]

Il 6/13/2013 6:53 PM, Carnë Draug ha scritto:
> On 13 June 2013 17:44, marco atzeri <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Il 6/13/2013 6:30 PM, Carnė Draug ha scritto:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I'm thinking of moving the multiple packages we currently have in
> > > Octave Forge to individual mercurial repositories. Does anyone have
> > > any opinion on the subject or would oppose to it?
> > >
> > > Carnė
> >
> > in general, I do not like ~90 individual repositories;
> > overall maintance for common modifications will be a pain
> >
> > Marco
>
> I would agree with that. But the idea is that most developers would
> only have a handful of repos on their system, not all 90. Plus, this
> would make it easier to later move some out of Octave Forge into
> Agora, and move Octave Forge somewhere else. It's not what's will
> happen now. I used to think this things should be done with a single
> big large move. I am no longer of that opinion.
>
> It would also make it easier for me and reduce the number of people
> with commit access. People could just ask for pull requests, or submit
> changesets to package maintainers. And I grep the whole history of the
> repo way too often, looking for the history of stuff. Mercurial is
> much much faster for that.
>
> Carnë

no objection at all to switch to  mercurial.

If you want to split in ~90 individual repositories
will be nice to a have them as subrep of a common forge one.

~170 M as repository size is similar to other
packages that I am working on.

Regards
Marco