On 29.06.2011 12:17, Greg Stein wrote:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 05:04, Michael Stahl<[email protected]> wrote:
On 29.06.2011 05:27, Greg Stein wrote:
but HG supports hardlinks between repositories (in newer versions even on
win32), so you can "hg clone" the master on the same filesystem and then
pull in the CWS, and it will be _much_ faster and take _much_ less
Yah. This is awesome, and will make pulling CWSs much quicker. I'll
bake that into our scripts.
additional space (in fact, less than the useful-only-for-diff "pristine
source" in a SVN working copy would take).
Um. I see kind of a pot shot at svn here. I'll give you the benefit of
the doubt, rather than get cranky. The local pristines (beyond just
diff) mean that commits can send deltas, rather than the whole file.
And when you're working with 4G files (oh, wait! Hg can't deal with
files that size!) then sending a delta is very important.
i think usually HG stores and transmits binary diffs for changes.
but you're right, SVN isn't totally useless: the remaining niche where
SVN actually has an advantage over modern DSCMs is for versioning huge
binary files: you don't want to have all revisions of those in a working
copy.
we worked around that limitation by storing our binary blobs (i.e.,
external library tarballs) on a FTP server (see fetch_tarballs.sh).
oh, just noticed it doesn't include all the l10n repositories.
i think we need those as well.
with Branchmirror probably a second config file is required, because l10n is
a separate master repo.
(since DEV300m101 a master/CWS consists of 2 repositories, one for all the
bulky translations, one for the stuff i work on :)
I don't understand this part. DEV300 is the master repo, right? Are
you saying that there is a *separate* repository for the l10n data?
yes, exactly.
the l10n stuff has huge changes, and developers don't ever need it, so
we complained about all this wasted hard disk space/bandwidth, and now
finally releng gave us 2 master repos :)
these are the master l10n repos:
master_l10n/DEV300
master_l10n/OOO340
for CWS it looks like this (guess most of these won't contain changes):
cws_l10n/sw34bf06
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