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Re: [trinity-devel] git Help? Howto clone tde-packaging/arch?

From: Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@...>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:58:09 -0500
On 16 February 2012 10:55, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty@...> wrote:
> On 02/16/2012 09:41 AM, Calvin Morrison wrote:
>>> Bummer. Quoting the cmake master:
>>> >
>>> >  "Remind me again, why we replaced svn with git? :)"
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
>>> >
>> Some top google results:
>>
>> http://thinkvitamin.com/code/why-you-should-switch-from-subversion-to-git/
>>
>> http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/
>
> And you drank the Koolaid didn't you :)
>
>  I see the advantages argued, but I'm not sure on balance how the hit due to
> the change is outweighed by what git does for tde. I'm sure it works out, I just
> don't know enough comparatively to see it. Regardless, we have git now, we will
> just make due with what it provides. At some point in the future, if the distro
> build dirs grow in size, it might be worth configuring them as individual
> modules under tde-packaging to allow individual cloning.
>
> --
> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

Right on I drink koolaid all day. It's delicious :p

But yes we could do that eventually. though I am confused why opensuse
is taking 30Mb of data.... :o I mean all that should be in the
repositoriees is a few build files right?

I can't see it growing ridiculously out of size

Calvin
Calvin