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
