From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC8241389E2 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 03:01:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E9C8CE088A; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 03:01:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-f176.google.com (mail-ig0-f176.google.com [209.85.213.176]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CDB2BE0857 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 03:01:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ig0-f176.google.com with SMTP id l13so8471419iga.3 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2014 19:01:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=JRETax2L6bIfhR3UuI4zWPP0BaZcyH5g++nBT0Ma478=; b=YGFizY49Oy13hSKro2F5utZ7uEG4qMS8C3pIbd7wXGbXuc5XkxK4jyXlk9CCLPFJyZ qcp3v4b/oFg/UcKvms25LGcwFgYwnKLGMRdqBb0t93gN9POUcxfY20iE8djSYIphA6Y4 sGU7nuQm21FecOLMzW3wamJ6t+Mu5B6PiYyB9kx349pNzP3m+TKknTXWUnmeOTIXI4bp u+mUjvVCVWYbOgqFg+OW12Y8GX+Hx7NlvkXA5JokWYL4wl/w+zLX0f2L6V7FXwb2a71b 7hv8t1m0QdKUr7QLsecF/KU9zEKaqr+aVIpkpvEVaUcu28eNlCiz07YPUHQuR5dBS84Z kuZw== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.107.12.234 with SMTP id 103mr31691523iom.71.1417057276974; Wed, 26 Nov 2014 19:01:16 -0800 (PST) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.107.9.80 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Nov 2014 19:01:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <547689B4.6010606@yourstruly.sx> References: <5470D229.7000806@tampabay.rr.com> <54760E01.2050508@gentoo.org> <54764D1E.1080201@xunil.at> <54768398.60701@yourstruly.sx> <547689B4.6010606@yourstruly.sx> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 22:01:16 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: WEosQ1u6hQIH5VdCWl9wWUwnN4o Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's future directtion ? From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: bb176728-4083-45ce-9eda-e94a4f9cc20a X-Archives-Hash: 9197a715617e9e70835ed55215c4bd15 On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 9:17 PM, Paige Thompson wrote: > A good example of why I don't think they will be using git for portage: > ``git clone https://git.kernel.org' > > This takes a very long time and a lot of bandwidth and a lot of space. > Why move data that isn't going to be used? With rsync I believe you can > exclude categories: > http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_Exclude_categories_from_emerge_sync Anybody who wants to use rsync can still do so after the migration. Git is a LOT faster at syncing than cvs, which is what we're all stuck with right now. The whole gentoo repository with history takes about 2GB, but we will be separating history from the current tree so initially the repository will be quite small. For anybody who does want the history git is very efficient at syncing. You would need to store the whole repository, but the bandwidth needed for syncs is very low. > > If they were gonna do that with git every category would have to be a > submodule. I could be wrong but I just want to believe it hasn't been > made available despite being supported for a good reason. There are a bunch of reasons that it hasn't happened. You can read the tracker bug to get a sense of the past roadblocks. At this point the biggest item left is getting the new infra set up, which is underway. -- Rich