On Friday, August 10, 2012, Jeff Conrad wrote: > I went ahead and did it. > > I was able to clone the Apache Flex git repo both from github and > git.apache.org. It was a 174 MB download. I've done this multiple times > over the last hour or so. I was able to clone it on Windows 7 using Git > Bash, inside Eclipse using the EGit plugin, and I even cloned it also on a > vagrant box running CentOS 5.8 since I couldn't copy and paste the output > from Git Bash. > > It took about 2-5 minutes to clone from the command line and significantly > longer--over 20 minutes--to clone from inside Eclipse using the EGit > plugin. Below is the command line output from cloning the apache repo. > > [vagrant@vagrant-centos ~]$ git clone git://git.apache.org/flex.git > Cloning into 'flex'... > remote: Counting objects: 330636, done. > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (87765/87765), done. > remote: Total 330636 (delta 238772), reused 325026 (delta 233243) > Receiving objects: 100% (330636/330636), 174.64 MiB | 989 KiB/s, done. > Resolving deltas: 100% (238772/238772), done. > > > > The git repository on Apache, and therefore the mirror on Github as well, > has the entire revision history. There's so much history to page through > that Eclipse actually ran out of memory while I was trying to find the > first revision. I found it, though, after a bit of digging on github. > Here's the commit logs from the very first open source sdk revision on > github: > > https://github.com/apache/flex/commit/68afd32e95b98dae7b3f832ecbd938fbd3a90008 > > It was on page 867 of the commit history: > https://github.com/apache/flex/commits/trunk?page=867 > > tl;dr > > 2-5 minutes on the command line > 174 MB download > You get a clone of the entire Apache Flex repository, with the complete > revision history. > > Jeff > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Michael A. Labriola < > labri...@digitalprimates.net <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > >OK, but the first clone will be huge? I think our import file was in > the > > 10's of GBs. I'm afraid to try to clone the flex project over my home > > network. I am testing by cloning the flex-site which worked from github. > > > > That is a big concern. I don't have a sense of how big it would be if all > > of the copies of files SVN has were made singular in the git method. We > > don't need to use github to figure it out though, we can make a local git > > repository and try this. I am willing to do so later next week when I > > should have time or, if someone else has time, they can do so first. > > > > Mike > > > > > > >
This ^^^ Another reason. Git is way faster than SVN in many facets. I'm not sure how someone said Git branching on your local machine is slow. It's damn near instant for me, as is switching between branches. As far as Git clients for Mac, the best is http://www.git-tower.com/ It's extremely well done, I don't mention it originally cuz it's commercial. SmartGit is a good alternative for Mac and PC. I strongly recommend Tower. -omar
