On 2018-01-06, Lari Rasku <lari.ra...@elisanet.fi> wrote: > On 01/02/18 14:03, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> Hosting a large git repository is not trivial, it uses far more server >> resources (memory and cpu time) than an anoncvs/cvsync/rsync mirror, and >> OpenBSD src/ (or even just ports/) is *huge* for a git repo. It works >> better on Linux where things are more separated. Even *just the kernel* >> is split across multiple repos. > > The Linux kernel repo is multiple times the size of OpenBSD-src [1], > so I don't see how things being more separated helps them re: hosting. > Perhaps kernel.org just has more hardware to throw at the problem? > > And in case anyone else was confused, the Linux kernel itself isn't split > across multiple repos: you can build a fully functional one from a single > checkout. It is the kernel *development* that is split across multiple > repos, with occasional merges to mainline. > > [1]: Naive estimate based on comparing object counts when cloning from > GitHub: > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/ - > 5,779,337 objects,
Ah thanks, I didn't manage to track that down with the 850 others :) > https://github.com/openbsd/src - 1,741,047 objects. When I've tried converting in the past I've had things like it taking about a minute to do a git log, even after the git repack that people familiar with git suggested I try. >> Anyway, has anyone fetched your openbsd-src0-test repo from github while >> crossing crypto export boundaries? That has the exact same issue, >> except that now as it's your repo, it may well be considered that it's >> *you* that is responsible for exporting it. > > Surely the responsibility for exporting lies with the one doing the > checkout? Otherwise I don't see how operators of OpenBSD CVS mirrors > in the US aren't in the same position. > > Or is there some technical distinction between "mirroring" and "checking out" > a repository? (I ask because the warning against fetching sources from USA > when located outside North America only appears on > https://www.openbsd.org/cvsync.html, not https://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html > or https://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html.) I don't know all the details. But the github page about it at https://help.github.com/articles/github-and-export-controls/ makes it sound like it's the repo owner's responsibility to me.
