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

[Parker Coates]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 18:26, Kleag <kleag at free.fr> wrote:
> Le mardi 31 janvier 2012 00:02:45 Albert Astals Cid a écrit :
>> El Dilluns, 30 de gener de 2012, a les 23:48:30, Kleag va escriure:
>> > Le lundi 30 janvier 2012 23:19:12 Frederik Scharzer a écrit :
>> > > 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 ?
>>
>> How much does it take for you to download 500MB? It takes a while for me, a
>> pretty good way to put off contributors ;-)
>
> For me, it would be around 20 or 30 minutes, but just for the first time I
> suppose.

Another issue is that Git can't resume a clone if the connection is
interrupted midway. So big repos are a problem for those with slow
connections AND those with unstable connections.

Parker