On 31/05/14 15:03, Merlijn van Deen wrote:
On 31 May 2014 16:08, Chad innocentkiller@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. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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