[Mageia-dev] HEADSUP: Full git clone of all package specs (with history)

Fri Apr 5 13:44:13 CEST 2013

Hi Colin, *,
+
+On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 8:46 AM, P. Christeas <xrg at linux.gr> wrote:
+> On Saturday 23 March 2013, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+>> 'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 22/03/13 09:32 did gyre and gimble:
+>> [...]
+>> > Just to avoid a crazy amount of scripting with svn checkouts and such
+>> > like, I've set running a git svn clone of the cauldron package
+>> > subversion tree.
+>>
+>> That said, running git blame takes *ages* even on an SSD drive. It was
+>> at least a couple minutes to display the results of a blame on a spec file.
+>
+>  Let me remind you of the other suggestion:
+>  Put each package in a separate git repo, and then use "submodules" to bind
+> all of them together into the "Mageia" repo..
+
+Somewhat surprised that it takes so long - LO's core repo is much
+larger and is reasonably fast, even on traditional disk.
+Maybe git maintenance commands (gc and/or prune) may help? Care
+uploading the repo to github or similar?
+
+And I'd not put every package into submodules, as those are not /that/
+easy to work with - but maybe splitting by alphabet might indeed be a
+good idea. (pagackages starting with A or a in one module, B or b in
+another, etc.) So you need only 27 subrepos instead of lots and
+lots...
+
+ciao
+Christian
+