On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:12 AM, Martin Vaeth <martin@mvath.de> wrote:

> Luis Ressel <aranea@aixah.de> wrote:
> >
> > That would require a local git clone. And that's exactly what those who
> > still want Changelogs are trying to avoid.
>
> You need even a deep git clone with full history.
>
> Already now this means that you need 2 (or already 3?) times the
> disk space as for an rysnc mirror; multiply all numbers by 4
> if you used squashfs to store the tree.
>
> In the course of the years the factor will continue to increase;
> I guess at least by 1 for every year (there is possibility of some
> compression of history, but OTOH, many packages are added and
> removed, eclasses keep changing, etc.)
>
> So in 2-3 years, it can be for some users 20 times the disk storage
> than what it needs now.
>

Or, in 2-3 years, maybe people will stop with the hyperbole. Hopefully
sooner. The tree is a bunch of text files, of which a whole lot of text is
repeated (esomewrapper, eclass-based builds which are identical but for a
single line, version updates to packages that make no changes at all to the
ebuild, etc.) which is great for compression, which git does.