Hi Richard,
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 09:55:10 +0200, Richard Pöttler wrote:
> Hi,
> [...] So I wrote a git driver for
> ports (attached) and some example configuration files for the namenlos and opt
> repositories (also attached).
>
> What do you think?
This has a couple of nice properties:
- I think when coupled with gitweb this is better than rsync,
since you can link to the actual files in the portdb.
- Also, if we could actually recommend our users to use the public hosting
on git.or.cz (not sure if that's okay with them) or any other git
hosting, we would never have to hear the "I have no webspace to host my
ports" argument anymore :-).
There are a couple of downsides though:
- no nice output; i.e. you don't see which ports are updated
- clone currently gets the whole repository; currently, I get the
following numbers (opt):
git: 16708 kB
rsync: 10458 kb
in other words, 50% more data is transferred and stored. This will get
worse over time with more history, although chances are that thanks to
compression, this won't be too bad
- users behind a restrictive firewall might have to use the http://
access, which is fairly slow, especially for the initial clone
If git gains a "partial clone" feature, that would definitely help.
Regards, Johannes
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