On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 10:53 AM, John Covici <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: > > Thanks. clone-depth seems not to be available, so I amnot sure whats > best here. I thinkI like the history, so I will see how to do a git > clone. I do havethe type as git in the gentoo.conf, but I don't know > what happened to clone-depth -- its not in the portage man page. >
Feel free to attach the file and we can take a quick look at it. I'm also not sure if it only applies on the initial sync. I think the option has been around for a while so I'm not sure why it isn't working if you really do have the type set to git. And you can always browse the history from the web viewers. The reason that we ended up removing Changelogs is that they end up adding a lot of bandwidth to the sync process (and of course they take up space), when you only rarely look at them. Even if you occassionally do look at one, in order for it to be there you have thousands of them constantly being synced. The other challenge was that with the way rsync worked it greatly increases the bandwidth transferred if new entries are added to the top (if they were added to the bottom rsync would only transmit the last block of the file). However, from a convenience standpoint it is usually nicer to have new entries at the top. The general sense is that Changelogs represent the old way of doing things. Most projects have gone away from having them, or they just auto-generate them from git. I don't think most projects routinely distribute them either - they just stick them on a webpage and only people who care about them look at them. The linux kernel only includes the changes in the last release in their change logs as well (which is nothing more than a dump of git log). Encouraging users to use git is also a relatively positive thing, because this is a tool with extremely widespread use. The exact same commands you use to find out what is going on in the Gentoo repo will serve you just as well when trying to figure out what is going on in some other project. It also makes it trivial to do historical checkouts - users sometimes are looking for old portage snapshots to try to deal with updating outdated systems, and with git this is pretty trivial to accomplish. -- Rich
