On Monday 07,March,2011 10:22 AM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: >> I think it's a waste of space to keep the >> tarballs separate from the tree. > > which you will do anyways at least for a moment (noone escaped > from the fact of needing .orig.tar.gz yet), but might not be needed for > the long run. > > So, if you carry about 100s of packages at once, carrying complete > development histories (even though GIT is super-efficient in storage) > might become a bit a burden... not to mention fetching of the entire > collection of repositories (I bet alioth would simply choke then) >
Well not really. We've had an all-packages.git for pkg-cli-apps and pkg-cli-libs for some time, and it hasn't choked badly in my experience before. The size of Banshee's entire history is equivalent to the size of two tarballs. And it stretches back to 2005. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin
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