Re: Minutes of the pkg-perl BoF at DebConf 10
Hi,
أحمد المحمودي <aelmahmoudy@sabily.org> writes:
> On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 05:50:35PM -0400, gregor herrmann wrote:
>> Ansgar asks do we need checkouts of the whole tree?
>> D. Bremner: Yeah, we'd most likely need to do that.
> ---end quoted text---
>
> If the transition to git would be done, would that mean that all
> packages will be in the same git repo ? Or each package will reside in
> its own git repository. Please note that due to the nature of git, one
> needs to checkout the whole tree, which will be too much download size
> if all packages will be in the same git repo.
Every package will have its own repository. I think we all agree on
this and it is also how the packages we already have in Git are handled
today.
Having a single, large repository will have several disadvantages:
· hard to remove single packages including history (license problems,
should be rare as long as we are allowed to distribute the package
even when its not DFSG-free),
· lots of merges when people work on different packages at the same
time,
· it's, well, larger.
But we still want to have whole-tree checkout. And it should be
reasonably fast to update this.
Regards,
Ansgar
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