On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:29:02PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Craig Boston <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > 2) Have one repository clone that gets re-used for each import, with the > > "checked out" branch getting changed before the import. As far as I can > > tell this means suffering the "git checkout" overhead for 30,000 files, > > which is conceptually inefficient but in real time only a minute or so. > > That should only be "conceptually" in fact, as switching between > branches should not touch paths that are the same between > branches. I suspected as much, though in practice almost every file is different between the branches that I'm tracking. RELENG_4 and RELENG_6 for instance have years of development between them, with almost every major subsystem and API reorganized in some way. I might have to do a quick compare once I get things imported and see exactly what the numbers are. Craig - 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
