[Kde-scm-interest] scripty questions

[Chani]

On May 23, 2009 10:41:52 Magnus Bergmark wrote:
> 2009/5/23 Chani <chanika at gmail.com>
>
> > the only thing that might make it slow or bad for hte (git)
> > server is if git makes it really hard to take only the doc folder from
> > the repo.
>
> It is not possible to do a partial clone of a repository since Git doesn't
> work that way. Now, Git does have very good compression and if most of the
> files there seldom changes, the bandwidth usage shouldn't really be a
> problem.
>
> If you really need to clone a specific directory, you have two solutions:
>     1. Make the directory a separate repository and have it as a submodule
> in the parent repository. Cons: Complex and not really easy to use.
>     2. Don't use git for that directory; just fetch a tar.gz via HTTP.
> Cons: Should be obvious. Not really a solution.

or the ugly-hack solution:
since scripty has to download all the modules anyways, have it copy the git 
doc folders into a separate folder, make that available online, and have the 
update_xml script rsync it or download a tgz of it or something. :/

none of these are good solutions, really.

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