On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 03:12:25PM +0100, Ian Hinder wrote: > So every time there is a change to the documentation, the repository > size goes up by the size of the file. Since everybody checks out the > whole repository, this affects everybody's disk space.
Yes, this is an unfortunate side-effect of first of all storing this in a VCS in the first place, but also of using a system that stores the whole history locally. Maybe we should take this as opportunity to think again about whether we should put these generated files in the VCS in the first place. They don't really belong there. The intention is that a user has the documentation quickly and easily available. If we would, say, find a way to have the documentation online updated automatically, I would say we wouldn't need to provide the pdfs in git anymore. It is probably save to assume that any user has some kind of Internet connection - not all the time, but most of it. We could even get the pdfs of a release from within the thornlist from such a website. Frank
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