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On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 9:17 PM, Paige Thompson <erratic@××××××××××.sx> wrote: |
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> A good example of why I don't think they will be using git for portage: |
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> ``git clone https://git.kernel.org' |
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> This takes a very long time and a lot of bandwidth and a lot of space. |
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> Why move data that isn't going to be used? With rsync I believe you can |
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> exclude categories: |
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> http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_Exclude_categories_from_emerge_sync |
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Anybody who wants to use rsync can still do so after the migration. |
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Git is a LOT faster at syncing than cvs, which is what we're all stuck |
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with right now. |
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The whole gentoo repository with history takes about 2GB, but we will |
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be separating history from the current tree so initially the |
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repository will be quite small. |
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For anybody who does want the history git is very efficient at |
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syncing. You would need to store the whole repository, but the |
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bandwidth needed for syncs is very low. |
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> If they were gonna do that with git every category would have to be a |
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> submodule. I could be wrong but I just want to believe it hasn't been |
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> made available despite being supported for a good reason. |
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There are a bunch of reasons that it hasn't happened. You can read |
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the tracker bug to get a sense of the past roadblocks. At this point |
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the biggest item left is getting the new infra set up, which is |
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underway. |
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Rich |
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