On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Norbert Thiebaud <nthieb...@gmail.com> wrote: > The fact that our source is spread among 20 git repositories has been > a source of grief and quite a common complaint from people joining the > project. > > Recently there ave been some tests conducted to see if having just one > big git repo would be viable from a performace stand-point. > > Björn Michaelsen did some preliminarily measurement that indicated > that it would be bearable, and this has been discussed few times > during Technical Steering Committee's conference calls. > The consensus emerging is that the benefit outweigh the cost. > > I have been working on setting-up a concrete plan on how to do this migration. > > I have put what I have come-up with so far on our Wiki > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/One_Git_Conversion >
I got slightly different figures for the .git/ of each repository. Instead of 1666MB total, I got 1350MB. You may have to run 'git gc' on your repositories. I got the 1350MB figure by testing with fresh clones. Tell me if you want me to update the wiki page with these figures. Simos > This is still a work in progress, and there are small and full scale > test to be conducted. > Planning and exact deployment plan are also very much a work in progress. > > Never-the-less the general idea is to try to do this migration sightly > after 3.4.2, so roughly in the August 2011 time-frame. > > Comments and suggestion are welcomed on the 'Discussion Page' > associated in the Wiki. > > Please do not do substantial change to the main page without > discussing it first. (fixing my horrible English spelling/grammar is > fine, of course :-) ) > > > Norbert > _______________________________________________ > LibreOffice mailing list > LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice > -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad? _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
