Gentoo Archives: gentoo-scm

From: Mike Auty <ikelos@g.o>
To: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-scm@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-scm] Status of the project?
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:10:47
Message-Id: 497DFC9D.1020107@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-scm] Status of the project? by Donnie Berkholz
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4 Donnie Berkholz wrote:
5 > I'm still not convinced of that. The alternative would require a patch
6 > to git-submodules, some additional tools support for grabbing additional
7 > repos with checkouts and repoman, but it has some compelling advantages
8 > (like non-devs don't need 1 GB of web space / bandwidth to post their
9 > forks of the tree).
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11 Aren't the existing overlays a suitable method of tree forking?
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13 I agree, 1Gb's a bit steep, but someone commented[1] that they'd
14 compressed their (relatively current) checkout down to 650ish Mb. I'm
15 currently attempting a complete import using git-cvsimport (from an
16 rsynced copy, don't worry Robin!). It's still updating (so far 15+
17 hours, so I hope I haven't made a mistake back at the start!), and it'll
18 need repacking after that, but then it'll hopefully be relatively easy
19 to add incremental updates.
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21 Rereading past threads it looks like we still need someone to try
22 setting up and running repoman against git's cvsserver implementation.
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24 I'll see how small I can make my repo, and if it's significantly smaller
25 (under 700Mb), I can post it to dev.g.o for those that want to duplicate
26 it (although, as ever, please be nice to infra and yoink it using http
27 not ssh). Also remember that doing cvsimported git repos should be
28 cloned from rather than modified directly (I think it breaks the ability
29 to do further incremental updates)...
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31 Mike 5:)
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33 [1] http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/12/13/4410084/thread
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Re: [gentoo-scm] Status of the project? Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>