Re: [SVN-MIGRATION] Steps for the SVN migration

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Lars Strojny <lstrojny@php.net> wrote: > 2.) Single repository, multiple repositories. Do we want to use a single > repository for all things PHP, including PEAR, PECL etc.? > > Pro: > * It is how it is currently > * Only one repository to maintain and administer (e.g. hooks are > configured for everything or for nothing) > > Contra: > * Multiple repositories might be easier to scale, as they can be > distributed on various hosts. Not sure if this is likely to become > an issue > * Easier to include new projects and to move current projects to > another hosts if the situation requires such a change > * One repository itself does not become that huge and can be shared > over partitions, discs (while this is possible with symlinking old > revision data too, it is not very handy) There are couple more things: Pro: * There is a need, sometimes, to copy/move files between pecl and php-src. Single repository would allow to keep complete history of such files. Contra: * SVN uses version-number for the whole repository, not for the file, which leads to fast-growing number of versions. -- Alexey Zakhlestin http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/