Re: Git? (Was: Team maint update)
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>
> If anyone is interested in how I'm doing this, I can make my Bzr repo
> public. I should also mention that none of this is Bzr specific
> and it would be trivial to move this to any other modern VCS.
Just as a related data point on how small git repos are...
You don't need to store tarballs in a git repo; rather, you'd import the
content of them as upstream makes a new release. The only
tarball-related git thing you might do is use pristine-tar, which writes
a small bit of metadata that allows you to generate a bit-identical copy
of the original tarball using only what's in the repo; but that's an
extra feature past what your setup had anyway, and those pristine-tar
bits are usually less than 10K anyhow.
My Debian convertible repo's .git is 136K.
If I look at my own HDBC tree -- the one with every single commit since
HDBC began -- it's 408K. That's 314 commits. The HDBC 2.1.1 tarball is
31K compressed, 143K uncompressed.
Each revision of conertible added just over 1K to the pristine-tar
branch. So we're talking really small numbers here. This is why I say
git is really efficient on disk.
-- John
Reply to: