On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Dr. Trigon <dr.tri...@surfeu.ch> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello all! > > Pywikibot finished GIT migration. Now a question has anybody ever > tryed to clone and use the e.g. the pywikibot/compat repo on the TS? > If I do, I get and .git folder of about 200MB which nearly fills my > home quota. (this is the plain clone - nothing done to/with it yet!!) > > Yes I could do 'git gc' I could also switch to using SVN from github > (but needs to handle all externals manually)... > > So... what was acutally the reason for switching to GIT? Despite the > fact that I have to enter about 1 million different commands now (in > SVN I needed 5 ... maybe 10 - 1 command per action, in GIT I need > about 5-10 command PER action) I am dealing 75% of my time with GIT > issues (that SVN did not have)... > > In fact I am not able to to USE or further develop the GIT repo since > the migration - and I am SERIOUSLY thinking about setting up an own > copy on sf.net again and work there... (then we would also have the > bug-tracker back in the same place) At the moment I see just 2 drawbacks: > > 1.) not hosted by mediawiki (really a drawback?) > 2.) no review (this is the one and only advantage of git till now, and > in fact it's git-review which causes issues too) > > The list of advantages on the other side, is that long that I will not > even start making one, think of it yourself and please give me some > feedback! > > At least I do not see if there will ever be a point in time when GIT > will start to work as well as SVN did in the past. I do also not see > why I have to enter 5 commands just to make a simple commit. And that > will never change... > > Thanks for your thoughts and Greetings > DrTrigon
Since this is just your TS copy which I will assume that you are just using to the run the bot and doing the dev elsewhere, just delete the repository in your working copy: > git clone remote > rm -Rf .git _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
