* Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-17 11:30:08 CEST]: > * Gerfried Fuchs: > >> What happens if you exclude this data? > > > > I don't know exactly when this was and where. I believe it was > > somewhere below the events pages but I can be wrong about that. Didn't > > try to dig it up and restart the whole thing - like written, it took me > > almost three days of (non-constant) running git-cvsimport. > > Okay, I will look for large files.
You will have to look for them in history, not in the checkout. > A ChangeLog-style file is a large file which is edited in basically > every commit. GIT handles them somewhat poorly. They tend to have a > history overhead which is disproportionate to their actual information > content (except when you use RCS/CVS without branching). What's the use-case for it, in webwml? We don't have that in CVS neither? > > To some degree yes. It should be obvious to everyone involved that a > > conversion to a new VCS will require a new checkout and can't be done by > > some local conversion magic, and that this new initial checkout requires > > some bandwidth and time. > > It seems that the initial checkout bandwidth is around 150 MB for GIT, > and 35 MB for CVS. I *highly* doubt that an initial CVS checkout would take only 35 MB, it's complete news to me that CVS is able to compress-transfer the whole working copy anywhere near that. Please notice that the 150 MB for Git is the whole working copy with all its history informations. > (BTW, if we ever want a system which differentiates between production > and beta, a changeset-based system is probably not the best choice > because for web sites, it's common to copy select stuff from the beta > view to the production view, instead of merging histories.) A valid point, though it's strange to bring it up now because there were never any approaches to go that direction in the past ... Thanks. :) Rhonda P.S.: Btw., please notice that I'm subscribed to -www and don't require the offlist Ccs, thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
