On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Norbert Preining <preining@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. There is a large LKML thread discussing this.... http://lwn.net/Articles/355923/ > > 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 > -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx -- 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