On 31/05/14 15:03, Merlijn van Deen wrote:
On 31 May 2014 16:08, Chad
<innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote:
270MB is gigantic for a git repo.
But it's not an issue /per se/. The issue is slow clones/slow pulls, not so
much the 270MB on your hard drive. The slow clones/pulls can be improved by
re-packing the git repository on the server side -- this helped
significantly for the pywikibot repositories. I'm not sure if this has been
attempted for mw/core yet.
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Currently the slow clones can be almost completely avoided by cloning
from the github mirror, if you have a reasonably fast connection. But
considering how most folks are likely to want older history for blames
and whatnot sooner or later anyway, the longer download time for the
bulk of the data will still come up when they have to download the rest,
but this way it would be with a few extra steps.
What /does/ github do, do we know? Would that be useful/applicable? Is
phabricator similar?
-I