> the very first open source sdk revision A blast from the past... I committed that!
Sent from my iPad On Aug 10, 2012, at 7:22 PM, "Jeff Conrad" <jeff...@gmail.com> 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> 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 >> >> >>
