On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 13:22 +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 10:48:28AM +0100, Claudio Ciccani wrote:
> > Denis Oliver Kropp wrote:
> > > Mike Emmel schrieb:
> > >> Denis would you consider a switch to svn  or better git ?
> > >>
> > >> It makes it a lot easier to do experimental branches.
> > > 
> > > svn alone wouldn't be worth a switch, it's the same as cvs.
> > > 
> > > I haven't looked at git in more detail, but it looked promising so far.
> > > 
> > 
> > According to my experience with projects using GIT, I can say it's a bit
> > prohibitive for developers without a large bandwidth!
> > Indeed, when you clone (checkout) a repository, it starts downloading
> > all the project's history. For a project started more than a year ago,
> > that means HUNDREDS of Mega Bytes!
> 
> That's a one time operation unless you nuke your cloned repository. I'm 
> more worried about the disk space usage because my disks are always full 
> :)

If a .git directory grows big, you can try

git-repack -a -d

which combines single object files into pack files with delta
compression. I always do this for the disk space savings after fetching
updates, but note that there may be a performance tradeoff for some
operations between pack files and single object files.


PS: I followed up to this thread before from a different address, but it
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to the list. I understand that non-subscriber posts can't be accepted
automatically due to spam, but I think manual moderation would be better
in that case than automatic rejection. I share moderation of about half
a dozen lists with other people, only takes me a couple of minutes a day
thanks to a nice utility called listadmin.

-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer           |          http://tungstengraphics.com
Libre software enthusiast         |          Debian, X and DRI developer

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