[arch-general] svn packaging, abs => git ?

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 21:18:26 +0800
Ray Rashif <schivmeister at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 07/03/2010, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 7. März 2010 12:03:08 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:
> >> 2) svn->git migration is not trivial, since tools, the website, ..
> >> will need to be adapted.
> >
> > The problem is that our current repo layout and workflow is not
> > mappable to git. E.g. we use svn's feature to checkout specific
> > dirs/files etc..
> >
> > But I guess if someone would come up with a superior solution using
> > git we would be quite happy.
> 
> Sparseness is a complicated matter in git:
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-read-tree.html#_sparse_checkout
> 
> And we need that the most.
> 
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hmm.. it doesn't look _that_ hard:
http://vmiklos.hu/blog/sparse-checkout-example-in-git-1-7

Btw, re: my con 1 (disk space needed for history), one could use git
clone --depth if one only wants recent history.
(though i don't think this will be an issue at all in practice)

Dieter