Re: GitGitGadget on git/git, was Re: Should we auto-close PRs on git/git?

From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date: Nov 26, 2019, 21:56 UTC
Message-ID: <20191126215648.GA18872@dcvr>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1911262151590.31080@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

> The biggest obstacle is that at least one of those Pipelines requires
> access to a clone of public-inbox.org/git, and cloning that is rather
> expensive. Even a shallow fetch would be super expensive, by virtue of
> _all_ the mails being blobs reachable from the tip commit's tree.

Fwiw, lore.kernel.org/git/$EPOCH.git ought to be somewhat cheaper, but it's a different (more scalable) format which requires SQLite:

	https://public-inbox.org/public-inbox-v2-format.html

https://lore.kernel.org/git

(and I'm not going to pay extortionist .org fees to keep
 public-inbox.org when it comes up for renewal in 2023,
 maybe everyone can use Tor .onions by then :> )