On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Can't we just kill rsync then? The whole ChangeLog seems to take more > effort than the actual benefit it gives. >
I'm not sure ditching rsync entirely is necessary - it might be more trouble than it is worth as it is a very effective simple way to distribute the tree. However, I'm not really opposed to it either. However, I do really question whether we need changelogs in rsync. It seems like many projects are going away from these - or doing what the kernel is doing and just dumping a git log into them. I don't think we need to try to shoehorn the old changelogs into our git history - I'd just leave them in the tree for migration and then prune then post-migration. Oh, in case it is useful to know, a full historical git bundle is about 1.2GB, and a clone+checkout of the bundle uses about 2.1GB of space. A compressed cvs tarball with the full history is about 575MB in comparison, though I see it has grown by about 50MB in the last six months. Bottom line is that non-shallow checkouts will need a decent amount of space. Then again, my tmpfs /usr/portage uses 735M just by itself. -- Rich
