On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 2:51 PM, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 1 September 2015 at 22:23, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> The second one is easy, and I did that for various old h grepositories >> >> of >> >> mine a couple of years ago (when Sage and others things switched to >> >> git). >> >> After a quick Google, I think what I used was this: >> >> http://hivelogic.com/articles/converting-from-mercurial-to-git/ -- very >> >> easy >> >> and kept all the commit history intact. >> > >> > >> > By the way, if you don't wan to convert the repo to git then you can use >> > bitbucket.org instead >> > (bitbucket can host both hg and git repos) >> > >> > As to how github/bitbucket works - well, apart from some bells and >> > whistles, >> > you get an account where you can host your repos. >> > And to (from) these you can push (resp. pull) just as you do with >> > git.sagemath.org. >> >> Github sort of has a 1GB repo size restriction, though they say it >> isn't a hard rule. Putting 30GB+ data in a single repo would be >> questionable and probably not allowed (not sure). Bitbucket is >> clearer -- if you exceed 2GB they disable your ability to push to the >> repo [1]. > > > That is true and github also has a limit on the size of any one file (1gb I > think) which stopped me using it for one lot of data. > >> >> >> Anyway, let's stop telling Simon King that Bitbucket or Github will >> solve his 30GB of data hosting problem, when they don't. > > > Agreed. There are two problems, not quite the same: first to find somewhere > to put the files -- not such a great problem, even the tiny card in my > camera has 32gb and external disk drives are not expensive;
The reason for Github, etc. limits is not really the size of the media but the bandwidth of people downloading it. For example, Amazon/Google charge about ** $4 ** to download 32GB of data from any computer hosted on their clouds. > second, to have > a *secure* copy, for which cloud services are good for data which is not too > large. > > I will contact Simon off-list with one suggestion. Host it at Warwick? I could host the files fine at UW now -- the issues are resolved. The big problem now is labor. I have no money to hire anybody (even super cheap students) to do work on the Sage cluster here, and I don't have the time. If I had got that NSF grant earlier this summer it would be completely different. -- William > > John > >> >> >> [1] >> https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/what-kind-of-limits-do-you-have-on-repository-file-upload-size-273877699.html >> >> William >> >> -- >> William (http://wstein.org) >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sage-support" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-support" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
