Luis Ressel <ara...@aixah.de> wrote: > > That would require a local git clone. And that's exactly what those who > still want Changelogs are trying to avoid.
You need even a deep git clone with full history. Already now this means that you need 2 (or already 3?) times the disk space as for an rysnc mirror; multiply all numbers by 4 if you used squashfs to store the tree. In the course of the years the factor will continue to increase; I guess at least by 1 for every year (there is possibility of some compression of history, but OTOH, many packages are added and removed, eclasses keep changing, etc.) So in 2-3 years, it can be for some users 20 times the disk storage than what it needs now. I think there must be a very good reason to require that amount of disk space on everybody's machine. ChangeLogs IMHO isn't.
