On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 01:30:43PM -0400, linux fan wrote: >> FYI >> >> I like git. >> I'll share my curiosity in case anyone is curious about git. > > [...] >> >> The second thing I tried was to use git-svn to grab a copy of the blfs xml. >> The entire blfs (all revs, all branches, didn't know any better) saved >> in 204MiB in 2 hours. > > Thanks for these notes, I'll try to find time to look at the > details of git-svn in a week or two (I've got git-1.6.6 on my home > server, together with a now quite old subversion, as well as the blfs > and lfs repos, so *in theory* I don't need a lot extra. OTOH, since > I do all my development alone, and I'm still unconvinced that git is > the best tool for the books [ e.g. linear revision numbers are a lot > easier than random hex numbers ], I'm not expecting much useful to > come out of that.
I used to do all my blfs development using git-svn. It was so much easier to keep branches of the little things I was working on. I just did a shallow clone, though, and didn't pull the whole repository. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
