From: David Lang Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:26:16 GMT Subject: Re: More precise tag following Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <204011cb0701271136m655815f6o1501de2bf699b362@mail.gmail.com> if nobody else steps forward I can arrange something like this on my home server (only 768K updtream bandwidth, but it's better then nothing) Daivd Lang On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Chris Lee wrote: > Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:36:50 -0800 > From: Chris Lee > To: Linus Torvalds > Cc: Simon 'corecode' Schubert , > Shawn O. Pearce , Junio C Hamano , > git@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: More precise tag following > > On 1/27/07, Linus Torvalds 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 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >