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

Mon Apr 8 23:46:13 CEST 2013

'Twas brillig, and Christian Lohmaier at 05/04/13 12:44 did gyre and gimble:
+> 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?
+
+I can push the repo somewhere sensible if you wish, but it's not likely
+super useful unless you have the git-svn branch too.
+
+But I've done pruning of the empty commits (i.e. those ignored via
+--ignore-paths with git-svn) which took 3 days to run in a tmpfs
+filesystem!, and also done a git gc --aggressive. The times posted are
+what results from that.
+
+
+Col
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
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+http://colin.guthr.ie/
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