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Re: Limiting disk usage

From
Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 29, 2013, 14:45 UTC
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On 2013-10-29 14:50, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote:
> Yes, I put a lot of code into the repository. I know it is wrong from git POV ;)
> That's why I wrote about splitting repository into multiple smaller
> repositories, but AFAIK git is not very good at managing that too...
Lot of code isn't problem, see Linux kernel or GCC, or LibreOffice.org
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> (Background: we're thinking about migrating svn repository into git.
> Currently there is one svn repository containing many related
> directories. They are branched/merged/tagged together. Often work is
> done on all/many of them, but there are some use cases where we need
> only some of them)

If they are independent projects, they should get independent repositories; you can stitch them back together using git-submodule (or git-subtree). reposurgeon can hel you with that.

-- 
Jakub Narębski
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  2. Matthieu MoyOct 29, 2013
  3. Piotr KrukowieckiOct 29, 2013
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