[knowledgeforge-user] maintenance work

[Mark Longair]

Rufus,

Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> 
> Great stuff Mark!
>
> Just so I'm clear: have you deployed this patch on knowledgeforge.net
> (I assume you have but I wasn't sure from reading your email).

No, I haven't done anything on the server.  As far as I know
there isn't yet a server-side fix for the problem, which
apparently needs a different patch from that suggested at first
in the thread:

  http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2009-08/0301.shtml

> Lastly, I agree that this is definitely easier than the svnserve route
> (even though I know that isn't *that* hard John!)
>
> Francis: I prefer mercurial too but this seems to be a emacs vs. vim
> like debate :) I guess that now the git conversion is done converting
> to mercurial isn't that hard.

I'm a bit reluctant comment on these things, since I think git
is wonderful and don't use mercurial much (just by chance)...

However, I will say that many comparisons between the systems
are beside the point when you're dealing with quite such large
repositories.  In my experience git deals much better with them,
but there are still good reasons not to go down that route - in
particular that git doesn't yet have good support for narrow or
shallow clones.

regards,
mark