From: Jon Smirl Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 21:46:47 GMT Subject: Re: Figured out how to get Mozilla into git Message-ID: <9e4733910606091446u5660d7b0q1f2e118abcd057c9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On 6/9/06, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > I haven't come up with anything that is likely to result in Mozilla > > switching over to git. Right now it takes three days to convert the > > tree. The tree will have to be run in parallel for a while to convince > > everyone to switch. I don't have a solution to keeping it in sync in > > near real time (commits would still go to CVS). Most Mozilla > > developers are interested but the infrastructure needs some help. > > This is true. GIT is still evolving and certainly needs work to cope > with environments and datasets that were never tested before. The > Mozilla repo is one of those and we're certainly interested into making > it work well. GIT might not be right for it just yet, but if you could > let us rsync your converted repo to play with that might help us work on > proper fixes for that kind of repo. I'm rebuilding it on my shared hosting account at dreamhost.com. I'll see if I can get it built before they notice and kill my process. My account there is on a 4GB quad xeon box so hopefully it can convert the tree faster. My account has 1TB download per month so rsync will be ok. Not bad for $12 the first year. It would take over a day to rsync it off from my home machine. > > Martin has also brought up the problem with needing a partial clone so > > that everyone doesn't have to bring down the entire repository. > > If it can be repacked into a single pack that size might get much > smaller too. > > > Nicolas > -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com