Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:20:55 +0200 From: "K. Macy" <kmacy@freebsd.org> To: "K. Macy" <kmacy@freebsd.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Official git export Message-ID: <CAHM0Q_NLSDqu73__sTU-eiTu8qadGGjfXX1utD8Nu%2BzewjZLcw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110830201357.GB58638@acme.spoerlein.net> References: <CAJ-Vmo=v0UkQarauKrvWKdjMTC81BwXmyhU__rnaQeL3z45L-g@mail.gmail.com> <slrnj5ddgp.4ck.vadim_nuclight@kernblitz.nuclight.avtf.net> <CAMBSHm8uX45k0M4on=5Cpw_CKoddA=4oJSNXpH7dGPt=Vy2HOw@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1108261000040.48200@fledge.watson.org> <slrnj5lc58.jd1.vadim_nuclight@kernblitz.nuclight.avtf.net> <4e5ba9c3.bzHIw1KEy8R2QcK7%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <3420B331-C697-468A-80BA-B31C33804710@freebsd.org> <4e5c5b5f.moT7dLemOuteQJ5T%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <4E5C364D.7070904@freebsd.org> <CAHM0Q_Mq3YEEpB6uNymjtd=WCQuTR6gd=71EsLxJf5J0ygyjiw@mail.gmail.com> <20110830201357.GB58638@acme.spoerlein.net>
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w far back in time one's repo goes and being
>> able to have some control over views would go a long way towards
>> streamlining its use for FreeBSD.
>
> Utterly irrelevant. A partial checkout won't make git noticeably
> faster, as it is pretty darn fast already. Believe me. A truncated
> history might save you up to 150MB, also totally not worth the effort,
> especially because then your custom git repo has different hashes and
> fetching/merging other peoples branches becomes impossible.
>
> Furthermore, the point with git is to have multiple branches in your
> workspace and switch between them (again, this is frigging fast). I was
> juggling 8-10 branches at one time and have never had the need to create
> a second workspace ('git stash' being the keyword here).
>
> Please have a look at http://wiki.freebsd.org/GitWorkflow and try it
> out!
I've been working out of git for the past 15 months:
https://www.gitorious.org/~kmm/freebsd/kmm-sandbox
I'm afraid that due to time and bandwidth constraints the size of the
initial repository is indeed relevant for many of us.
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