On 14 March 2012 16:31, Colin Guthrie <[email protected]> wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 14/03/12 15:23 did gyre and gimble: >> If you fear a server crash, you can use git svn and you've a full compact >> local backup > > As a side note, it would be good to use git more. I think during the > mga3 timeframe I'll try and look at the git infrastructure with a view > to moving the various soft/ stuff over to git.
The things is, some translators are used to svn, so switching to git may not be easy for them. For dev, it can helps things, keeping unfinished stuff into branches rather than in patch files that can got lost/forgoten > Packages I won't even begin to think about (it's too much of a pain) On contrary, I think this one would be easier since mgarepo is supposed to hide svn though some packagers know they can use svn directly. > but it would be good to have more official and better exposed git > repositories other advantages are : - less used space on the server (disk usage exploded on the server when switching from CVS to SVN) ; - also quite a lot less files on the server too (so less jobs for saving & fscking) since cvs used on file per checked file whereas svn (as configured in mdv) is using one file per transaction in big directories - full history is backuped locally at relatively little space cost (providing git gc is run regularly at least when using git-svn) for quite a lot project, disk usage is actually smaller than svn that keep a copy of everything in .svn, thus doubling disk usage whereas git compressed history can be smaller (not for the full drakx history for the last 11+years though :-) ) - quite a lot operations are faster (even if SVN was already an improvement over SVN regarding this) due to local requesting instead of network requests (eg: log, blame, ...) > where appropriate, automatic patch generation for some > packages (for example I use one for the initscripts package and I need > to be careful to add in patches from others to the "official" git > repository for it). At least this one should eventually die, shouldn't it :-) ?
