On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:12 AM, Martin Vaeth <mar...@mvath.de> wrote:
> Luis Ressel <ara...@aixah.de> wrote: > > > > That would require a local git clone. And that's exactly what those who > > still want Changelogs are trying to avoid. > > You need even a deep git clone with full history. > > Already now this means that you need 2 (or already 3?) times the > disk space as for an rysnc mirror; multiply all numbers by 4 > if you used squashfs to store the tree. > > In the course of the years the factor will continue to increase; > I guess at least by 1 for every year (there is possibility of some > compression of history, but OTOH, many packages are added and > removed, eclasses keep changing, etc.) > > So in 2-3 years, it can be for some users 20 times the disk storage > than what it needs now. > Or, in 2-3 years, maybe people will stop with the hyperbole. Hopefully sooner. The tree is a bunch of text files, of which a whole lot of text is repeated (esomewrapper, eclass-based builds which are identical but for a single line, version updates to packages that make no changes at all to the ebuild, etc.) which is great for compression, which git does.
