From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Switching to Subversion Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:16:44 +0900 Message-ID: References: <87bqne87ur.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <10609.1163264429@olgas.newt.com> <87fycphhyr.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> <87odrdzci9.fsf@olgas.newt.com> <87ac2w45e0.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <20061113114350.GA28313@intevation.de> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163424202 28593 80.91.229.2 (13 Nov 2006 13:23:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:23:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Bill Wohler , rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 13 14:23:19 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GjbmD-00070r-4p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:23:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GjbmC-0002oy-JK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:23:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gjblz-0002ol-K5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:22:51 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gjbly-0002oZ-98 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:22:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gjbly-0002oW-3Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:22:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [203.180.232.83] (helo=mgate03.necel.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gjblw-0004Gl-8m; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:22:48 -0500 Original-Received: from relay11.aps.necel.com (relay11 [10.29.19.46]) by mgate03.necel.com (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id kADDMicx015128; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:22:44 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay11.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.20] [10.29.19.20]) by relay11.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:22:44 +0900 Original-Received: from dhapc248.dev.necel.com ([10.114.97.235] [10.114.97.235]) by relay11.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:22:43 +0900 Original-Received: by dhapc248.dev.necel.com (Postfix, from userid 31295) id CFA47410; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:16:44 +0900 (JST) Original-To: Sascha Wilde System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <20061113114350.GA28313@intevation.de> (Thomas Arendsen Hein's message of "Mon\, 13 Nov 2006 12\:43\:50 +0100") Original-Lines: 22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:62209 Archived-At: Thomas Arendsen Hein writes: >> No, I know that mercurial definitely has some very strong points, though >> I've seen a lot of arguing over their relative merits. I'm slightly >> nervous about the name-based repository layout though, as it's such a >> horrible lose in the case of CVS > > That's actually one of the strong points of Mercurial. Because of > the name based layout the directory traversal order is more > efficient for filesystems with linear directory storage (like ext[2-4]) My question is whether it has negative effects though. Name-based layouts are indeed often very efficient, but might tie things to names too much. I tried to use mercurial a long time ago, and noticed it seemed to have only very poor renaming support -- renames basically seemed to show up as delete+add (mind you git's not all that great either in that sense). -Miles -- Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. -- Steven Wright