Re: [arch-haskell] What to do now?

On 09/10/10 22:27, Nicolas Pouillard wrote:

On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 22:13:50 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: [...]

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Just to get some numbers I downloaded the cabal files for for the latest version of all packages on Hackage. Then I ran cabal2arch on it all. After that I attempted to put the results in darcs and git.

Adding all files, 100 at a time:

* darcs: 522.18s user 5.49s system 99% cpu 8:48.96 total * git: 1.90s user 0.77s system 97% cpu 2.726 total

Record/commit of initial changeset:

* darcs: NA, it seems frozen with: 5548 done, 5480 queued * git: 0.33s user 0.32s system 57% cpu 1.128 total

I would suggest to use git for this kind of larges repos, however darcs will be a lot happier with smaller patches (even one per new file), making tags from time to time helps as well since it trunks the inventory and makes some operations cheaper.

I would *really* like to use darcs, but that's more due to "ideology" than anything else :-) From the numbers I would agree with the conclusion that git is more suitable for a repo of this size. I find your last comment interesting, since it could mean that darcs would be suitable if we don't attempt to "abs-ify" all of hackage at once. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe