wishlist script: “hegemon”: set up bare git mirror farm for all debian sources

2018-07-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
git at alioth is coming along very nicely and was a great step forward for Debian (thank you Ian). What would be nice is a script e.g. called say "hegemon" which could be used to greate a Debian git repo farm locally. Why? Well, I hold that this would be preferable to adding sources to my Debian

Re: wishlist script: “hegemon”: set up bare git mirror farm for all debian sources

2018-08-15 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Rough stats for “hegemon emerge” now available courtesy Gentoo, see the bottom of the following article, last section titled "Git versus rsync": https://lwn.net/Articles/759467/ and here's the money quote: Matt Turner said that he has set aside a 1GB partition for the tree, which works fine fo

Re: wishlist script: “hegemon”: set up bare git mirror farm for all debian sources

2018-08-15 Thread Zenaan Harkness
And BTW, the question that prompted this Gentoo discussion is here: https://lwn.net/Articles/759539/ and includes this snippet: 2. git seems to be more efficient for frequent syncing, while rsync seems to be more efficient for infrequest syncing. I'd guess the crossover is somewhere

Re: wishlist script: “hegemon”: set up bare git mirror farm for all debian sources

2018-08-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Zenaan Harkness writes ("wishlist script: “hegemon”: set up bare git mirror farm for all debian sources"): > git at alioth is coming along very nicely and was a great step > forward for Debian (thank you Ian). Why are you CCing me ? I had nothing to do with alioth or salsa. (May