So many repo formats

[Alexander Belchenko]

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.