On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 02:28:35PM -0700, david@xxxxxxx wrote: > guys, back off a little on telling the gentoo people to change. Don't blame Git people, please. I currently am the only one here to discuss that way and see a painful work coming at Gentoo. Git people didn't discuss around thoses issues. > the > kernel developers don't split th kernel into 'core' 'drivers' etc pieces > just because some people only work on one area. And you might notice that they don't provide a CVS access and actually don't work around an unique shared repo. Also, you might notice that keeping the history clean to assure the work on the kernel easier is not an elementary issue. > just because some people only work on one area. I see the gentoo desire > to keep things in one repo as being something very similar. That's why I think the gentoo desire is not very clean (don't be affected). What I see is that in one hand you want a DSCM and on the other hand you want to keep a central shared repo. > the problem here is a real one, if you have a large repo, git send-pack > will always generate a new pack, even if it doesn't need to (with the > extreme case being the the repo is fully packed) What about the rsync solution given in this thread? -- Nicolas Sebrecht -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html