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Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com
Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer
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On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 10:48 +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.
> >
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> According to my experience with projects using GIT, I can say it's a bit
> prohibitive for developers without a large bandwidth!
Can't say I agree with that.
> Indeed, when you clone (checkout) a repository, it starts downloading
> all the project's history.
Right, so the initial bandwidth requirements may be higher than with
centralized systems, but it should amortize over time because most
things can be done offline.
> For a project started more than a year ago, that means HUNDREDS
> of Mega Bytes!
That'll depend on the project. The X.Org xserver repository contains the
history of several years on dozens of branches; the unpacked source code
amounts to >50MB, but the repository is just above 20MB. YMMV.
Also note that you only need to download everything the very first time.
When cloning the same repository again, you can reference existing local
clones.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com
Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer
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