On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 1:20 AM, Patrick Lauer <patr...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> It is almost, but not completely unlike it. A simple ChangeLog is a lot > easier ... > > > (Why are people now trying to add middleware layers to indirect the > problem to become invisible in a huge machinery? This is wonderfully > insane ...) Exactly... The SCM is a lot easier, and you avoid any middleware layers and indirection :) Regarding all the previous size arguments: my system doesn't agree. A recent rsync sync gave me an 856 MB directory (of which 223 MB is those precious ChangeLog and ChangeLog-2015 files). A checkout from git, plus news, glsa, etc. (using hasufell's convenient portage-gentoo-git-config on GitHub) is only 782M, and I can get more detailed change information than those ChangeLog* files could ever give. Then there's the option of putting it on btrfs with compression if I still want the working tree smaller. You can argue about squashfs reducing the size, but you can do that with a tree from git just like you could with a tree from rsync, so it's irrelevant.
