On 1 September 2015 at 22:23, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> The second one is easy, and I did that for various old h grepositories > of > >> mine a couple of years ago (when Sage and others things switched to > git). > >> After a quick Google, I think what I used was this: > >> http://hivelogic.com/articles/converting-from-mercurial-to-git/ -- > very easy > >> and kept all the commit history intact. > > > > > > By the way, if you don't wan to convert the repo to git then you can use > > bitbucket.org instead > > (bitbucket can host both hg and git repos) > > > > As to how github/bitbucket works - well, apart from some bells and > whistles, > > you get an account where you can host your repos. > > And to (from) these you can push (resp. pull) just as you do with > > git.sagemath.org. > > Github sort of has a 1GB repo size restriction, though they say it > isn't a hard rule. Putting 30GB+ data in a single repo would be > questionable and probably not allowed (not sure). Bitbucket is > clearer -- if you exceed 2GB they disable your ability to push to the > repo [1]. > That is true and github also has a limit on the size of any one file (1gb I think) which stopped me using it for one lot of data. > > Anyway, let's stop telling Simon King that Bitbucket or Github will > solve his 30GB of data hosting problem, when they don't. > Agreed. There are two problems, not quite the same: first to find somewhere to put the files -- not such a great problem, even the tiny card in my camera has 32gb and external disk drives are not expensive; second, to have a *secure* copy, for which cloud services are good for data which is not too large. I will contact Simon off-list with one suggestion. John > > [1] > https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/what-kind-of-limits-do-you-have-on-repository-file-upload-size-273877699.html > > William > > -- > William (http://wstein.org) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-support" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
