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Re: Details for svn test repository
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 15:29 -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>
> > I think it can be quite helpful when tracking down how code was
> > developed. I often find myself tracking back into the old-gcc
> > repository to figure out when a bug was introduced.
>
> Sure; we maintain GCC back as far as GCC 2.7.2, so we do have to go
> fishing sometimes.
>
> But, this is mission creep.
>
> All we should be trying to do at this stage is get to a new VCS that is
> no worse than CVS on the axes we care about. I can't see any
> fundamental reason that we couldn't go back and add history later, if
> that's compelling and someone wants to do it. The same goes for file
> rename information: we're getting by without that now, and we can add it
> in later if need be.
>
> I think all we should be doing is making sure that the new system is at
> least as reliable as CVS, easy enough to use, faster for key operations,
> and provides good infrastructure for getting things like file renaming
> handled correctly going forward.
And towards this end,i'm working on making blame a lot faster
Other than that, what operations are people still worried about the
slowness of?