On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 05:50:05AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:34:04AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:06:42AM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote: > >> On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 09:49 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >> > Why not put everything in a single git repository? > >> > >> That would require every packager to check out the entire package set, > >> all revisions, all branches. No thanks. > > > >Jesse can probably estimate for us how large this will be. > > > >I've found that git deals very well with large repositories that have > >lots of files and lots of history (kernel, qemu). And you only ever > >have to download it once, since you can use "git fetch" to make local > >working copies. > > A full git repo was 5.7G. I sure as hell don't want to pull that down > when I'm only interested in a few packages. > > (The CVS repo is 16G on the server side if you are wondering.) Fair enough - it doesn't make sense since the combined repo would be so large. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
