On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Massimiliano Torromeo <[email protected]> wrote: > This will lead to having thousands of tags in the repo. > Does anyone have any experience with git repositories with so many tags? > I am thinking about possible performance issues since I don't think this is > typical git usage.
I assume we will use one git repo per PKGBUILD. The amount of tags should stay manageable. Putting all the packages into one repo would create too much merge/rebase contention. Using branches to separate the packages would mean we'd lose the use of branches to manage development, say adding a new linux stable release in [core] while the next major release cooks in [testing]. That has historically been rather painful in our setup, and making it easier would also help us with staging larger projects like GNOME releases without hindering [extra] maintenance. In any case, git got a lot better lately in dealing with many refs.
