On Apr 6, 2010, at 2:28 AM, Colin Law wrote: > 2010/4/6 Christian Stimming <[email protected]>: >> In particular, downloading everything by "git clone" doesn't take that long, >> hence I don't understand some comments here which mentioned the need for an >> extra download-all-in-one-file requirement. Also, github.com encourages to >> create forks of existing repositories easily (such as this one), so I guess >> this is an easy playground for testing the git access to our code. > > It is about 90MB but github sourced it at my full connection speed of > 2Mb (in the UK) and it took less than 9 minutes go clone. Since > cloning is a rare occurrence for each user I do not see that as a > problem, for most anyway.
It doesn't take long to clone because it doesn't have any history: It was a "flat" import from svn (i.e., git svn fetch http://svn.gnucash.org/gnucash/trunk instead of http://svn.gnucash.org/gnucash). The actual migrated repo with its 20 years of changes will be *much* larger. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
