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

[Frederik Scharzer]

Am Dienstag, 31. Januar 2012, 09:52:09 schrieb Shlomi Fish:
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:10:18 -0500
> 
> Parker Coates <parker.coates at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> For this, there's this service: https://caurea.org/ . You give it a
> git URL and it packages it for you as a tar file and allows you to
> download it over https:// . One problem I've ran into with this
> service is that it only operates https:// which rules out some
> popular download managers which don't handle it. When I told about
> it to the creator of that site, he said that the download managers
> have to be fixed instead of making sure the git bundler service is
> also available on plain http://.

We should not rely on third-party tools like that.


> Finally, http://projects.kde.org/ provides tarballs for the
> repositories (and over http:// - :-)). See for example:

That's indeed quite nice. I never saw that before. :)

Regards