Re: [Bioc-devel] Git pack file greater than 5MB

, October 1, 2020 10:32 AM To: Henrik Bengtsson ; Nitesh Turaga Cc: bioc-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Git pack file greater than 5MB yes Hervé has made this point too -- mucking with the history of the package, potentially breaking historical checkouts (when large files are deleted

Re: [Bioc-devel] Git pack file greater than 5MB

yes Hervé has made this point too -- mucking with the history of the package, potentially breaking historical checkouts (when large files are deleted from the history, too). It's relevant because when a package is added to our repository we do a full clone of the master branch; an alternative

Re: [Bioc-devel] Git pack file greater than 5MB

I understood that it's a submission. Just wanted to make sure that it's clear there might be side effects, e.g. people clone and collaborate also before submitting to Bioc and a rewrite might surprise existing collaborators etc. /H On Thu, Oct 1, 2020, 09:04 Nitesh Turaga wrote: > This package

Re: [Bioc-devel] Git pack file greater than 5MB

This package isn’t yet a Bioconductor package Henrik. It will break other forks most likely. This package hasn’t been submitted to the Contributions either to be reviewed. So this is the time to break what needs to be broken before it’s submitted to Bioconductor and gets into the Bioconductor

Re: [Bioc-devel] Git pack file greater than 5MB

Doesn't a git rewrite break all existing clones, forks out there? I'm happy to be corrected, if this is not the case. /Henrik On Thu, Oct 1, 2020, 08:16 Nitesh Turaga wrote: > Hi, > > The BiocCheck will complain on the build system about the > 5MB package > size. > > The rewrite of the history

Re: [Bioc-devel] Git pack file greater than 5MB

Hi, The BiocCheck will complain on the build system about the > 5MB package size. The rewrite of the history with BFG cleaner (https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/ ) is not as severe as you think it is to be honest. It is just removing these

[Bioc-devel] Git pack file greater than 5MB

Hi all, We have a package that is ready for submission, but when running BiocCheck a warning is generated noting that "The following files are over 5MB in size: '.git/objects/pack/pack-xxx...". I've pruned, repacked, and run git gc which reduced the file size from 5.2 to 5.1MB, but I have been