“git breaks when it tries to mirror” is not a convincing argument for moving to git. It might be an argument for fixing the mirroring in git.
wunder Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) On May 29, 2015, at 6:03 PM, Yonik Seeley <ysee...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 to move to git! > > -Yonik > > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Anshum Gupta <ans...@anshumgupta.net> wrote: >> I know this has come up a few times in the past but I wanted to bring this >> up again. >> >> The lucene-solr ASF git mirror has been behind by about a day. I was >> speaking with the infra people and they say that the size of the repo needs >> more and more ram. Forcing a sync causes a fork-bomb: >> >> Can't fork: Cannot allocate memory at /usr/share/perl5/Git.pm line 1517. >> >> They tried a few things but it's almost certain that it needs even more RAM, >> which still is a band-aid as they'd soon need even more RAM. Also, adding >> RAM involves downtime for git.a.o which needs to be planned. As a stop gap >> arrangement attached a volume to the instance and are using it as swap to >> work around the "adding RAM requires restart" issue. >> >> FAQ: How would the memory requirement change if we moved to git instead of >> mirroring? >> Answer: svn -> git mirroring is a weird process and has quite the memory >> leak. Using git directly is much cleaner. >> >> I personally think git does make things easier to manage when you're working >> on multiple overlapping things and so we should re-evaluate moving to it. I >> would have been fine had the mirroring worked, as all I want is a way to be >> able to work on multiple (local) branches without having to create and >> maintain directories like: lucene-solr-trunk1, lucene-solr-trunk2, or >> SOLR-XXXX, etc. >> >> Opinions? >> >> >> -- >> Anshum Gupta > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org >
