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

Xavier Chantry chantry.xavier at gmail.com
Sun Mar 7 22:24:42 CET 2010


On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 10:14 PM,  <fons at 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.


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