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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] [sync] Increase the default git sync-depth to 10
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 20:45:59
Message-Id: d3e647d6-8468-6469-1b23-ce3e77b05df7@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] [sync] Increase the default git sync-depth to 10 by "Michał Górny"
1 On 10/30/2016 01:42 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > On Sun, 30 Oct 2016 13:22:51 -0700
3 > Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
6 >>> On 10/30/2016 12:08 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
7 >>>> Increate the default git sync-depth from 1 to 10, to ensure that
8 >>>> gentoo-mirror git clones retain at least a single original signed
9 >>>> commit.
10 >>>
11 >>> Why wouldn't the last commit always be signed?
12 >>
13 >> Oh, it could be a merge commit. Couldn't the original signed commit be
14 >> much more than 10 commit behind though?
15 >
16 > No, gentoo-mirror is only doing a single-level merge commit to combine
17 > signed changes with cache. I'm using 10 as round safe default that
18 > shouldn't take up too much space.
19
20 OK. I think it would be nice to mention that rationale in the man page.
21 --
22 Thanks,
23 Zac

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