On Apr 6, 2010, at 8:03 AM, Christian Stimming wrote: > Am Dienstag, 6. April 2010 schrieb John Ralls: >> 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. >>> >>> 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). > > I can't follow you here. As I said, I just forked from timabell's SVN import, > and he indeed converted everything including trunk and 2.2 and 2.whatnot > branches and tags until last April. This also gets cloned into the local git > repo. > > I agree my update of timabell's clone (i.e. the SVN commits from last April > until now) are indeed just the commits from trunk, without any tags or other > branches. But all the data from before that is in there. > >> The actual migrated repo with its 20 >> years of changes will be *much* larger. > > No, the actual migrated repo (with the first commit from linas on 1997-11-01) > does not take longer when accessed through git. The one we're currently > talking about is already almost everything. > > And for the record, the download ("git clone") took on the order of 2 minutes > here (at a 16MBit tube). This, together with Colin's number above, rather > tells me "git clone" is as efficient as it could get, as only the download > speed is the bottleneck anymore.
Sorry, you're right. Operator error on my part. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
