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On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:12 AM, Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> Luis Ressel <aranea@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> > That would require a local git clone. And that's exactly what those who |
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> > still want Changelogs are trying to avoid. |
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> You need even a deep git clone with full history. |
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> Already now this means that you need 2 (or already 3?) times the |
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> disk space as for an rysnc mirror; multiply all numbers by 4 |
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> if you used squashfs to store the tree. |
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> In the course of the years the factor will continue to increase; |
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> I guess at least by 1 for every year (there is possibility of some |
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> compression of history, but OTOH, many packages are added and |
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> removed, eclasses keep changing, etc.) |
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> So in 2-3 years, it can be for some users 20 times the disk storage |
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> than what it needs now. |
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Or, in 2-3 years, maybe people will stop with the hyperbole. Hopefully |
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sooner. The tree is a bunch of text files, of which a whole lot of text is |
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repeated (esomewrapper, eclass-based builds which are identical but for a |
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single line, version updates to packages that make no changes at all to the |
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ebuild, etc.) which is great for compression, which git does. |
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