John Goerzen wrote: > Seriously, it's not that hard, takes absurdly little space, is built > into the toolset, and lets you recreate any version in history.
It takes absurdly little space on top of the actually space for the sources themselves. The way I am doing it in Bzr, as long as you don't build the package it just takes < 200 bytes. Even if you do build version X once, it downloads the sources once per machine and then caches it. For the way I am doing it in Bzr (easily transferable to any other VCS, even CVS), the repo only contain the debian/ dir, metadata and helper scripts/makefiles. With this method, anybody can grab the whole repo, work on only one package in the repo, and never download sources for any package other than the one they work on. For me, with a crappy Australian internet connection that is a huge win, especially if we eventually get GHC (which is big) into the same repo. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
