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On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, Matt Turner wrote: |
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> On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 11:38 AM Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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>> 4. by default git tends to accumulate history, which can eat up disk |
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>> space. I imagine this could be automatically trimmed if users wanted, |
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>> though during syncing it would at least need to store all the commits |
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>> between the last fetched and next-fetched, and that means fetching |
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>> things that might have been subsequently removed/changed |
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> This is why I have not switched to git. I have /usr/portage on a |
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> separate 1GB partition (with distfiles and packages stored elsewhere). |
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> The ebuild tree is 600MB with rsync and cannot fit on the partition |
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> with git. |
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> I'd be happy to switch if the space requirements were similar. |
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Same here. One cannot avoid 3 things: death, taxes and insufficient |
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hard-disk space. |
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Andrey |
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