2011/10/18 André Hentschel <n...@dawncrow.de> > Am 18.10.2011 10:45, schrieb Damjan Jovanovic: > > This tool compiled all 35000 or so commits from Wine 1.0 to around 4th > October 2011 in only 7 days, generating a Git repository of Wine binaries > that's only 26 gigabytes in size. Regression testing with binaries is a > pleasure: it takes only a few seconds :-) on each bisection. I bisected a 16 > step regression in just 20 minutes, and most of that time was spent running > the application and dealing with 2 X-server crashes. > > I already love it. > > > I haven't figured out how to make the binaries available to users. Few > users can clone a 26 gigabyte repository, and even fewer places can serve > that much to multiple users. Maybe Git can compress it further? The other > idea I had is that users should be able to regression test through a GUI > tool. Maybe the GUI tool can just download and run the +/- 122 MB binary > snapshots for specific commits, instead of having the entire binary > repository locally? > > tried compressing the .git directory. or maybe "git gc" can help > > Thank you, "git gc" reduces it from 26 GB to only 1.5 GB :-). tar.lzma on top of that doesn't help.
Now the next question is, how to get the binaries to run on any distro? Or should I just compile on Ubuntu because most people run that (do they still, after Unity?)? Thank you Damjan
