On 02/21/2013 01:59 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > I don't keep local copies of things I don't work on regularly, so for team > packages I would be downloading all of it.
I thought about it for a long time. Then I tried again today, and now, I don't buy into this "it takes too much time to download" argument. Currently, with SVN, givent the size of the repository, it takes really a huge amount of time to clone a package *debian folder only*. >From a server in a data center in Seattle, it took me 90 seconds to download the packaging sources of python-eventlet. Compare this to the 4 seconds it takes me to clone python-warlock from Alioth, upstream source included !!! Then because this was only a small package with only a very small amount of upstream code, I tried again to benchmark how much time it took with a bigger project. Well, with nova, which I consider a quite big project, it took me 32 seconds to get all of it. And about 10 seconds for glance, which I would consider a medium size project. Then I repeated the experience from my (very) slow Chinese ADSL connection. Even there, it took me 42 seconds to clone glance from Alioth (a 9.4 MB repository). Scott, I would be *very* surprised if you had an internet connection slower than mine, considering where you live (if db.debian.org still has accurate information). The problem is that with SVN, it takes so much time and space (as each tag will generate some files), so you might have been fooled into thinking it would also with Git. But the reality simply not that at all. If you could suffer the slowness of SVN for so many years with the python module team, I'm sure you will like the upgrade to Git which will make clones so much faster. So in the end, I don't buy into your point that having an upstream source branch type of repository is too slow and too big. It's just simply not the case. Cheers, Thomas Goirand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51271ad6.8020...@debian.org
