On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 10:14 PM, <fons@kokkinizita.net> wrote:
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 02:49:01PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote:
The only viable solution I could think of is using one git repository per package - and that is just crazy.
I wonder, is it really that crazy ?
I've been looking into git as a replacement for my own use. One repo per project seems the 'natural' way to use it.
Downloading the complete abs would require a lot of 'git clone' operations, but is that the typical use case ? I guess it is not. And if you really need everything you do it once, after that it's just updates. And most users probably don't need everything.
Also, even if I find it hard to believe, it seems that git repos are typically much smaller than the equivalent in svn.
I have grepped the full abs tree many times for various reasons. It is very practical. And in 95% of the cases, I do not need any history, I just need the last version to read/edit/rebuild.