Hi! Last week I wondered how much space a complete git conversion would take - and I was quite surprised:
#v+ $ du -hs webwml* 325M webwml 416M webwml.git 819M webwml.svn #v- Granted, the whole conversion took me almost 3 days, none-constant running on my laptop. webwml is the old CVS part, webwml.svn the thing that's on alioth (just a trunk/webwml checkout, to be nice, but it doesn't really make it any better). The increase in diskspace was far less than what I expected. Please keep in mind that some years ago there were some binary data incorporated that were stripped off later again because of people complaining about their size - those are also included in here. Personally I think this is something that can be considered as not too bad alternative, especially since everything can be done offline because we do in fact have everything offline available and we don't need strange tricks with post-commit hooks setting some properties that are needed to count the changing revisions between commits, one of the major problems with doing offline stuff with a svn conversion (which simply explodes in size, too). I haven't tried to split it up into submodules because I am not too familiar with that git feature and how to work with it, but given that it's not even a third bigger in size for the complete history (which goes way back to July 1998, well over 10 years and over 83k commits!) I think this is something more than acceptable. Is this something that could be worked upon? 300M less than with svn with lots of benefits is something that I would really like to put some efforts into, and if someone is familiar with how submodules work so that translators can just checkout english and their language instead of the whole junk (I though would also like to see how many active translators we have that don't have the space for a full checkout) that would be great, too. If you like to take a look I could push that somewhere so others could take a look at. Please mind that if you like to start working on it, do it in a branch and not the main part, otherwise updating won't work... So long! Rhonda P.S.: Had done git-cvsimport -v -k -d :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/webwml -m -a webwml -C webwml.git P.P.S.: Yes, -k kills the keywords, but they aren't used by any scripts TTBOMK, are mostly cosmetic from what I can see. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
