Re: More precise tag following

> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:36:50 -0800
> From: Chris Lee <clee@kde.org>
> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de>,
>     Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
>     git@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: More precise tag following
> 
> On 1/27/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>> Do you have the converted repo somewhere to be cloned for? It's going to
>> be a lot more interesting for scalability testing than anything else.
>
> I don't have access to any servers that I could drop a 3GB packfile
> onto and expect them to serve it. And I don't have a connection at
> home that I could use to upload the 3GB pack from quickly - it would
> take days, at least. If anybody wants to hook me up with a hosting
> provider or a machine that just the git devs can access, I'd be
> willing to tie up my upstream bandwidth for a few days so you all can
> have access to it.
>
>> The thing is, one of the reasons the git object database is small is that
>> it compresses really well, and I suspect that for the KDE repo, what
>> you're seeing is really a combination of:
>>
>>  - the KDE people were idiots in the first place to make it into one big
>>    repo
>
> No argument from me about this one. The only defense I can really
> think of is that, in KDE, we *have* moved entire applications and
> libraries around between modules, and it is really nice to be able to
> have the full history for them.
>
>> So please point to a kde conversion archive to play with (maybe you have,
>> I missed it).
>
> I can provide you with instructions on how to reconstruct one, but
> you'll have to rsync over about 38GB of KDE's Subversion archive to do
> it. (Not fun.) If someone else wants to give me a dumping ground where
> I can upload my 3GB converted repo, I'd be happy to start pushing it.
>
> Also, please note, the 3GB packed repo is only about 2/3 of the full
> KDE repo - I cut off the import at revision 409202, because that was
> when the KDE svn admins decided to move a bunch of modules from
> /trunk/ to /trunk/KDE/ and it screws up everything. So a *full* KDE
> history import would definitely be more than 4GB, packed.
>
> -clee
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