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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: Brian Evans <grknight@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] [rfc] /usr/portage sync source options (and recommendations)
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 18:29:51
Message-Id: 20161230192923.3838a49f.mgorny@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] [rfc] /usr/portage sync source options (and recommendations) by Brian Evans
1 On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 08:55:08 -0500
2 Brian Evans <grknight@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 12/27/2016 8:37 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
5 > >
6 > > * Git: combined mirror [1]
7 > >
8 >
9 > This one is not very efficient for users to pull down since it creates
10 > massive commits in PR branches and is bloating the repo very quickly.
11 > As of this date, it is 1.2GiB overhead (.git dir) even when compressed.
12 > Compared to the dev repo of 240MiB.
13
14 If you have any concerns how git mirror is operating, don't you think
15 it would be more appropriate to direct them to the person running it
16 rather than throwing them somewhere in middle of another bikeshed class
17 thread?
18
19 --
20 Best regards,
21 Michał Górny
22 <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>