Greetings from London

[Aaron Bentley]

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Lars Wirzenius wrote:

> As it happens, I used a server I had idle for a few days to run a few
> tests, namely, unpacking all Debian etch source packages and importing
> the resulting directory tree into bzr, git, and svn.

> This is just a data point. It is obviously stupid to try to have such a
> big, monolithic project, but of course, it'd be nice if bzr could do it.

Actually, I believe John Meinel is testing Bazaar with the FreeBSD tree.
 No idea whether it's comparable in size, but I'd think roughly so.

In any case, we do want to address excessive memory usage patterns and
we'll be specifically testing for them in the coming months.

> Apart from size problems, both bzr and svn had trouble with some
> filenames, specifically non-utf8 ones.

AIUI, John recently relaxed the utf8 normalization code.  You may find
that works now.  But it does seem like this should be a compatability
knob.  I believe that out of Mac, Windows and Linux, only Linux supports
non-utf8 paths.

Aaron
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