On 11/5/08, Florian Klaempfl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Git is a hype. Git might be nice for projects with >100 developers and > which has (like linux) dedicated branch maintainers. Git allows to > support complicated project structures with several layers of > maintainers and project managers. But this is something smaller projects > like FPC or Lazarus don't need.
That's like saying.... I'm a single developer, I don't need a Source Code Version tool. > > > > * Git repositories are MUCH smaller. > > Who did tell you this? Linus? Does he have the history of the Linux code > since version 0.1 in his repository? No Linus didn't tell me anything... ;-) I simply read what many people have said. And to prove the point, I did my own tests as shown below. As for the full history of Linux kernel.... Yes that IS available. :-) You have a few choices: "If anyone is interested, I have put on my website[1] a git repository containing the full history of Linux, from 0.01 to now. It's built from 3 other git repositories: - the one from Dave Jones from 0.01 to 2.4.0, - the one from tglx from 2.4.0 to 2.6.12, - the one from Linus Torvalds from 2.6.12 to now." Just go to: http://lwn.net/Articles/285366/ > I doubt that a repository containing the full lazarus history is smaller > than a repository containing each file twice. OK, lets see... Lazarus HEAD revision only, using 'svn update'. I did a 'make clean', removed all *.ppu, *.o, *.compiled and all executables. 'make clean' did not catch all files or folders by the way, so I had to remove them manually. HEAD exported (no .svn folders) = 76MB (1 revision of source code only) HEAD checkout (with .svn folders) = 314MB (that means 1 revision only) So far that means SubVersion added 238MB of noise simply to manage ONE (head) revision!!! I guess there is a lot of crap in those .svn folders. So, I then asked Git to get me the HEAD revision only for Lazarus trunk. Again, that's only 1 revision, and Git will maintain the history from there onwards. I just completed the "checkout" of HEAD. HEAD checkout using Git = 108MB (that means 1 revision only) So Git is already 206MB smaller than SubVersion using the HEAD revision only. Wow, that's quite a saving of space! I'm busy fetching the FULL Lazarus trunk history for Git. That's around 8 years 3 months of information which equates to 17235 revisions in total. Currently I'm at around r3300 so have a while to go <smile>, but it's going pretty quick(ish). I'll report back later today on the full history size of Lazarus in Git. BTW: I'm not going to bother getting every revision for SubVersion, that's going to take forever and by the looks of it, fill my hard drive in no time. Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
