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On 08/24/2011 01:02 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: |
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> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On 24-08-2011 00:44:57 -0400, Matt Turner wrote: |
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>>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>> On 15:49 Tue 23 Aug , Lance Albertson wrote: |
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>>>>> I think using the shortlog output is the sane solution otherwise you're |
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>>>>> just replicating what you do in the commit. |
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>>>> It's not replication if users continue to use rsync; they won't have |
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>>>> commit info. |
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>>> Do we really want users to continue using rsync? Isn't git pull so |
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>>> much faster? What's the downside of users using git directly? |
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>> ehm, that you need git? that you need to use git to get information |
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>> about changes? that you need a whole new infrastructure of mirrors to |
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>> get it running (vs the rsync infrastructure)? that you need at minimum |
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>> 800MiB to be able to look at some history, iso. 286MiB as the rsync tree |
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>> is now? |
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>> Besides from that git doesn't even work on all platforms, but I can |
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>> imagine you don't care about that. |
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> Actually, the major blocker as I understand it, is portage metadata |
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> cache regeneration. |
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If anybody needs some background information on this, the "[RFC] DIGESTS |
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metadata variable for cache validation" thread can serve as a useful |
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reference: |
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http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_cfa80e33ee5fa6f854120ddfb9b468b3.xml |
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Also, note that it's possible to use post-sync scripts to tweak mtimes |
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of files pulled with git: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355313 |
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We've had support for git post-sync timestamp handling in emerge for |
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some time now: |
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http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=8e72dfe64208d0329a66d9d329d58ec458e79890 |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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