Dear all, (please Cc) I am managing some of my projects with git and I am quite happy about it. There is another project I am working that is quite big, the subversion checkout is about 14Gb. Doing svn up is a pain, it has to open tens of thousands of files and directories traversing the whole tree, trashing the fs cache and taking ages. My idea was to move to git, from what I read it should be more capable in handling these type of projects. Now, there is one show-stopper I see. From our repository we create a set of "packages", and the maximum of the "last-changed" revisions of the contained files determine the "version" of the package. This guarantees that any change in a file will increase the revision number of the package (some tricks for removals have to be done). This is necessary since we are distributing the packages from servers and the version number pf a package determines whether it should be upgraded (well known concept). Now my question, is there any way to set up something similar with git? My idea is that git - like subversion - could (if asked to) count each commit (global to the repository, irrelevant of the branch) and give it a version number. Since we all will use a bare repository on a server and pull/push from/to there, I think that something similar could be possible. So, before I delve into more gitty-nitty conversion, let me know if there is any chance for that, or we should stay with subversion. Thanks a lot and all the best Norbert PS: for those interested, it is TeX Live: www.tug.org/texlive ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining Associate Professor JAIST Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology preining@xxxxxxxxxxx Vienna University of Technology preining@xxxxxxxx Debian Developer (Debian TeX Task Force) preining@xxxxxxxxxx gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- YONKERS (n.) (Rare.) The combined thrill of pain and shame when being caught in public plucking your nostril-hairs and stuffing them into your side-pocket. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff -- 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