[darcs-users] Large repositories

[David Roundy]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 01:24:24PM +0200, Erik Schnetter wrote:
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> I just successfully converted a large (5 year development time, 60 MB 
> content, about 10000 patch sets) CVS repository to darcs.
> 
> The conversion went without a hitch, but it took almost a day.  CVS was 
> very slow pulling out some older versions (sometimes about one second 
> per file), but darcs did not noticeably slow down as the number of 
> patches grew (first about one, later about two seconds per patch).
> 
> I have not yet tried working with this repository, but from these 
> results I don't expect any problems.
> 
> Good job.

Great! I look forward to hearing your experiences.  I'm also curious as to
how powerful a machine it was that did this conversion... it must be quite
a bit faster than mine!
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.abridgegame.org