So many repo formats

[Goffredo Baroncelli]

On Friday 21 November 2008, Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> Goffredo Baroncelli пишет:
> > On Wednesday 19 November 2008, Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> >> Colin D Bennett пишет:
> > [...]
> >> I understand there could be some specific issues, but what's wrong with 
this
> >> approach in general? I mean having some lingua franca for different repo
> >> formats. Even if it slow lingua? One-time conversion is not very often
> >> operation, is it?
> > 
> > I disagree. The problem is not the "One-time conversion", ma all the 
> > operations between different repo formats.
> > 
> > If there are two or three version of repository, you have to care to every 
> > operation (pull, merge, push) between all version:
> > 
> > User A (repo ver 1) pull from user B (repo ver 2)....
> > User C (repo ver 3) merge from user A (repo ver 1), and push to user B 
(repo 
> > ver 2)...
> > 
> > More versions exist, more people use bazaar... more combinations exist.
> > 
> > There is no gain in a fastest format, which is slow when interacts with 
the 
> > the other formats... 
> 
> I've talked not about inter-repo communication problem, but rather about 
situation
> when one has old abandoned project somewhere in archives and want to 
resurrect it.
> 

Ok,
I highligted another problem of the multiple format repo.

BR
Goffredo


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