Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Harvey, Edward
> <Edward.Harvey_at_patni.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Put simply, as far as performance is concerned, Perforce has a strategy that beats the pants off either svn or git. Because perforce doesn't need to walk the tree.
>>
>
> I think this is one of those situations where most open-source users
> (and developers on this project) simply haven't dealt with trees so
> large that tree-walks become a serious hindrance to daily
> productivity. Very few opensource projects are that large. But in
> the corporate world (where both perforce and subversion are intensely
> used) these huge working copies just aren't that unusual. At Google,
> our main source tree is gi-normous... we would be *dead* if perforce
> had to walk the tree to tell me which files I had changed. Heck,
> even the Chrome Browser source that Google recently released (in a
> public svn repository) is an unbelievably huge checkout. Same with
> the 6 millions lines of Android code we released in git.
>
> So while it's not the norm in opensource, I do think that an
> (eventual) implementation of 'svn edit' methodology would make a huge
> impact on the corporate world... perhaps some of Collabnet's clients
> have made comments about this?
>
> Whatever the case, the rewrite of libsvn_wc is what gstein is working
> on now, and is highest priority. This whole 'svn edit' thing is just
> a pie-in-the-sky thing that we'd like to add (as a strictly *optional*
> mode) long after libsvn_wc2 has stabilized. No need to get excited
> about it for now.
>
Of coure comparing svn or git to perforce is like comparing ... roses
and duriang and a bycicle repair shop? The first two are vaguely
related, the third is not -- with the important difference being that
the p4 server knows "everything" about all working copies, or so i'm
told, which implies that p4 edit is also roundtrip to the server ... and
... that the server hardware must be enormous.
Still, the idea that you have to explicitly tell your wc that you're
modifying a file is abominable. I'd much rather spend time on writing a
long-running, stable, etc. etc. inotify daemon with all that implies (or
reasonable facsimile on other systems that support the paradigm).
--Brane
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Received on 2008-10-28 18:34:11 CET