3 Regards, Michael
On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 6:16 PM, Mark Struberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > I’ve migrated the NetBeans hg repo into GIT. Sadly this repo takes about > 3.6 GiB and thus we cannot host it on github or Bitbucket (both have a 2GB > limit). > I am currently hosting the repo on a small private server. > If anyone is interested then send me a private mail with your public key > and I’ll give you access. > Jaroslav, Geertjan and a few others already have a clone. > > There are basically 3 ways how we can handle this > > 1.) import a tarball into a fresh git repo. We would loose the history but > we only have sources which are explicitly cleared by Oracle. > > 2.) import the full hg history. That is pretty thick which means it’s not > that easy to clone. github pull requests also wont work as we exceed the > 2GB limit… > In addition the hg repo currently also contains lots of GPL libraries like > e.g. hibernate jar, etc. That’s something we don’t host at the ASF. > > 3.) Take the git import from hg and filter it. Remove all (most) jars, > temporary build results etc. We might also get rid of a few old branches > etc. If we keep the original hg repo around in read only mode then we > should be able to loose tons of weight. > > I personally prefer option 3. > But that is also the most labor intensive. > > > LieGrue, > strub
