John Goerzen <[email protected]> writes: > Git repos are very fast and space-efficient. Last I checked, the .git > for the entire history of the Linux kernel was smaller than the > unpacked tar file of a single version of it.
Linux is a huge codebase with a huge number of contributors. I don't dispute that speed and size are THE most important things for that project. But maybe they aren't so important for Debianization of a Haskell library with a dozen files and a couple of maintainers? As an equally unrepresentative counter-anecdote: twb> After running etckeeper for a few months, I noticed that /etc/.git twb> constituted four fifths of my /etc tree. Running git-gc twb> significantly improved this ratio. -- http://bugs.debian.org/483804 Babysitting repos by manually running git-gc every couple of weeks is not my idea of fun. > Using simple git repos for each project is a known approach, works > well, and is already supported by all sorts of tools out there. We > can do it today, with zero tool hacking, and maybe some minimal shell > scripts to manage it all on the side. That is certainly an argument in git's favour... or svn's :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
