My opinion (sorry for the delay): the converted repo is still big but I
think it's small enough not to cause any trouble. Hell, it's about 3Go
less than the current mercurial one. And as you said it's below 1Go.

So I think we should keep NetBeans in a single repo.

@Emilian Good work with the import by the way.

On Tue, 2016-11-29 at 19:06 +0200, Emilian Bold wrote:
> Yes, we also talked about git clone --depth in the 'Shallow git
> clones as
> an option to a split repository' thread.
> 
> Seems to me the repository problem has been fixed.
> 
> A fully migrated git repository is at a manageable size: 800MB or so.
> 
> People could also use git clone --depth or a non-authoritative
> repository
> (which doesn't even have to be ours) which needs git replace.
> 
> 
> 
> --emi
> 
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Paul Merlin <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > Emilian Bold a écrit :
> > > Git Replace does sound nice, so we should also provide a
> > 
> > non-authoritative
> > > repository with a minimal history for casual or bandwidth limited
> > > contributors.
> > 
> > git clone --depth allows "casual or bandwith limited contributors"
> > to
> > clone only a part of the history from a remote repository
> > 
> > 
-- 
Julien Enselme
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