Roland, thanks for the explanation. Cheers, Bruno
Il giorno lun 24 gen 2022 alle ore 19:40 Roland Haas <[email protected]> ha scritto: > Hello Bruno, > > > btw, why is svn still needed? I see that it is only used for > > ExternalLibraries which are anyway in a git repository (is it because of > > the particular directory structure of that repository?). > Not so much because of the directory structure but because of the > content. We use svn for the ExternalLibraries thorns, which contain a > tarball of the library (in case no copy is found on the system). > > Since git downloads the full version history (by default, and shallow, > --depth 1 checkouts do not work for us when using branches) we did not > want to use git for those (since eg the MPI ExternalLibrary repo is > ~172MB of "old" commits and ~10MB of checked out files. svn can > download a single revision more easily. > > Yours, > Roland > > -- > My email is as private as my paper mail. I therefore support encrypting > and signing email messages. Get my PGP key from http://pgp.mit.edu . > -- Prof. Bruno Giacomazzo Department of Physics University of Milano-Bicocca Piazza della Scienza 3 20126 Milano Italy email: [email protected] phone: (+39) 02 6448 2321 web: http://www.brunogiacomazzo.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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