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On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 1:20 AM, Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote: |
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> It is almost, but not completely unlike it. A simple ChangeLog is a lot |
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> easier ... |
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> (Why are people now trying to add middleware layers to indirect the |
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> problem to become invisible in a huge machinery? This is wonderfully |
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> insane ...) |
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Exactly... The SCM is a lot easier, and you avoid any middleware layers and |
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indirection :) |
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Regarding all the previous size arguments: my system doesn't agree. A |
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recent rsync sync gave me an 856 MB directory (of which 223 MB is those |
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precious ChangeLog and ChangeLog-2015 files). A checkout from git, plus |
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news, glsa, etc. (using hasufell's convenient portage-gentoo-git-config on |
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GitHub) is only 782M, and I can get more detailed change information than |
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those ChangeLog* files could ever give. Then there's the option of putting |
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it on btrfs with compression if I still want the working tree smaller. You |
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can argue about squashfs reducing the size, but you can do that with a tree |
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from git just like you could with a tree from rsync, so it's irrelevant. |
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