---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Raul Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2008/12/4 Subject: Re: [Kde-scm-interest] ideas to git conversion To: Robert Wohlrab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I don't think we must not copy that failure in linux history. When you see a "copy failure", I see bloat avoided. Linus has said in mailing list: "I've been thinking about trying to re-create some really old history into git, but it's still a lot of work.. And obviously not very useful, just interesting from an archaeological standpoint." http://kerneltrap.org/node/13996 This is my point. Having the all history is a good idea a priori, but it will consume a lot of space to a totally unnecessary thing. Actually, garbage for the most of people. We are working with Qt4, why do you need the history form Qt 1, 2 and 3 to be immediately available from your copy of kde repository?? If you need it, it always be available from the svn repository (in read-only mode). And there is no many times you will need it. I think the best approach is to have repositories with 50-100MB, easily downloaded, instead of beasts of 700-800MB that will inevitably grows to 1GB or more. Imagine a newbie trying to hack kdelibs or only trying to fix a little and simple bug having to download 700 MB only to do it. I really like to use git but I don't like when I have to download huge repositories with history "obviously not very useful, just interesting from an archaeological standpoint." > I don't know which version of linux repo do you use but I get my sources from > Torvalds repo and every version I need is in it. No. The Torvalds' repository has only the main development. The stable trees are in different repositories. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.26.y.git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.24.y.git ... "Disk might be cheap, but my /home is always full" Raul Fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Kde-scm-interest mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-scm-interest
