From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NVT8M-0004x2-7x for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:05:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 063DFE0998; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:04:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4ECCE0998 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:04:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.109] (aary59.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.5.210.59]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85F9E1B4278 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:04:13 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4B4F4E81.8080809@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:04:01 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?IlBhd2XFgiBIYWpkYW4sIEpyLiI=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] proxy maintainership and gentoo-x86 scm References: <201001112305.16532.hwoarang@gentoo.org> <201001122149.11091.hwoarang@gentoo.org> <201001131054.03953.vapier@gentoo.org> <8b4c83ad1001140449k49995e0ra01eeca16167735a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8b4c83ad1001140449k49995e0ra01eeca16167735a@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig700691951515F8263494720C" X-Archives-Salt: 86643670-49bf-48f1-81e6-7eaa9d079152 X-Archives-Hash: 94a23eb1296d26cb2da559243be8600d This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig700691951515F8263494720C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 1/14/10 1:49 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > Besides this, there is the problem of accommodating people who use a > subtree of gentoo-x86, and those who don't want the entire CVS history > on their hard drives. In summation, robbat2 needs *our* help in the > following: >=20 > a) Push functionality in shallow clones (patches exist upstream) > b) Partial-tree checkouts (patches exist upstream) > c) Optimize git so it can handle 30,000 files > - Maybe maintain a cache of directory timestamps and only stat() > directories? > - Implement recursive timestamps on directories in various > filesystems and then in git (via xattrs perhaps)? People want to do > this for things like Tracker too. Prelim patches might exist. > d) Implement scripts/infra for people to fetch repository (shallow and > deep) bundles to initialize their local git clones (similar to portage > snapshots) > - git clone from scratch taxes the server too much, just like > rsync from scratch > e) Server-side scripts for pushing to CIA.vc for pretty stats like we d= o in CVS > - We want this for overlays right now too. > f) (Optional) Fix http cloning in git to make it "smarter" to help > people behind firewalls get anonymous clones (patches exist upstream) >=20 > Did I miss something Robin? It would be nice to post that info to a webpage. That could increase a chance of a volunteer contributing some help. Note in advance: I don't know git internals, so can't help at this moment= =2E --------------enig700691951515F8263494720C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAktPToUACgkQuUQtlDBCeQIhoQCaAsDlemBDB9Ypxq8Wzx+VpVAB gtkAoIV/qWDFCQUknrU3omeWeixxWMft =9mMV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig700691951515F8263494720C--