On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Jan Holesovsky wrote: > Currently we are evaluating the usage of git for OpenOffice.org as one of the > candidates (SVN is the other one), see > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/SCM_Migration > > I've provided a git import of OOo with the entire history; the problem is that > the pack has 2.5G, so it's not too convenient to download for casual > developers that just want to try it. Shallow clone is not a possibility - we > don't get patches through mailing lists, so we need the pull/push, and also > thanks to the OOo development cycle, we have too many living heads which > causes the shallow clone to download about 1.5G even with --depth 1. How did you repack your repository? We know that current defaults are not suitable for large projects. For example, the gcc git repository shrinked from 1.5GB pack down to 230MB after some tuning. Nicolas - 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
