[Kde-scm-interest] [Kde-games-devel] Data files and the Git move

[Mathias Kraus]

On Sonntag, 4. September 2011 14:11:37 Stefan Majewsky wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I think it should be clear that we need to move to git somewhen, and
> it is well known that I think it should happen sooner rather than
> later. There are established processes for building split repos, so
> the only problem left IMO is the problem of data files.
> 
> The matter has been discussed before [1]. The executive summary of the
> current situation is:
> 1. 76% of a kdegames checkout is data files. [2]
> 2. Git is bad for handling binary files: All history is downloaded
> when you clone the repo. The way how GIt compresses the history is
> aimed at text files, not at binary files. I think to remember that
> 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.
> 
> So the questions which need to be solved before the git transition
> are: Where will the data reside? And, if in a separate repository, how
> do the dependencies look like?
> 
> My answer is: Data shall stay in SVN (in a new module kdegames-data)
> for now, and be handled like the kde-wallpapers module after that. I
> previously wanted kdegames-data to depend on kdegames, but I see that
> the reverse dependency (kdegames depending on kdegames-data) is much
> more obvious. Also, it's good for application developers who can use
> the distribution's packages for kdegames-data, instead of having to
> clone it from the server.
> 
> Can we do this?
> 
> Greetings
> Stefan
> 
> [1] http://kde.markmail.org/thread/oxwtkrelvnsywrig
> [2]
> $ find -type f -regextype posix-egrep -regex
> '.*\.(xml|wav|ogg|svg|svgz|jpg|png)' | xargs du -hsc | grep total
> 86M total
> $ du -hsc (*~(.svn|.git)) | grep total
> 113M total
> The latter uses zsh extended glob: (*~(.svn|.git)) matches everything
> except .svn or .git


sounds good. +1 from me