Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues

[Florian Weimer]

* Miles Bader:

> On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 09:04:36PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> >> More than 1200 changesets per month.
>> >
>> > Surely you jest.  How many projects in the world have that kind of
>> > changeset rate?
>> 
>> GCC will be in that range if it switches to changeset-based version
>> control.  Most developers seem to perform commits using a single CVS
>> command, so you can simply count the messages on the commit mailing
>> list for an approximation (I used May for reference).
>
> I expect that if gcc adopted tla, the number of commits to the `central
> archive' would go down quite a bit though, because many developers would
> choose to keep their own local archive as a staging area.

This wouldn't cut down the number of patch logs, though.  It's
reasonable to expect that it would increase because developers commit
more often to their staging area.

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