Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Nov 2019, Eric Wong wrote: > > The "0" is the "epoch", and larger repos have multiple epochs, > > roughly 1GB each. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ has 0..7, right now. > > Okay, so how does that work, is the idea that you should graft them > together using replacement objects if you want to have the full archive? Yes. Except we don't actually use grafts/replace and users can currently only clone the latest epoch of LKML. In the future, it should also be easy to jettison old epochs if space is limited. > And: if I want to track the latest mails in GitGitGadget, what indication > will I have that I'll need to switch to `.../1`? You can use the gzipped JSON grokmirror manifest at: https://lore.kernel.org/git/manifest.js.gz grokmirror could be a bit of a pain to install because of Python dependencies, so periodically attempting to clone the next numbered epoch ought to be fine, too. I've also considered adding epoch info into https://lore.kernel.org/git/_/text/config/raw so shell scripters w/o JSON parsers can use "git config"
