[Kde-games-devel] Move to git now?

[Kleag]

Le lundi 30 janvier 2012 23:19:12 Frederik Scharzer a écrit :
> Am Montag, 30. Januar 2012, 22:30:19 schrieb Kleag:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Sorry if that has already be asked. But isn't it possible to do an
> > experimentation of all kdegames in a git repository and see then if
> > the data problem is really blocking ?
> 
> IIRC, Git Daemon has to load the whole repo in memory when it is
> cloned. If two people are cloning, there have to be two copies in
> memory. And so on.
In memory ! That seems a strange design... but it's probably not the place to 
discuss git architecture :-)

> 
> Thus, having a big repo is bad.

> 
> Stefan made some tests once:
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-games-devel&m=131513833719487&w=2
> someone who used the svn2git rules on the whole kdegames history with
> data arrived at a 500MB repository, which is five times the size of
> kdelibs.
Quoting the mail you cite... Yes 500 MB is large but not so much with today 
disks. Or maybe I have not a good idea of what is the average KDE developer 
machine ?


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