Re: Please check the current beta git conversions

On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 7:38 PM Thomas Mueller <mueller6722_at_twc.com> wrote:

> from Ed Maste:
>
> > > Any guidance on amount of diskspace and how long it takes to clone the
> repo ?
>
> > I see just over 3GB in my clone, including about 2.5GB in the .git
> directory.
>
> > If you have only one checkout git will require a bit more disk space
> > than svn. However, if you have two or more working trees (say, vanilla
> > FreeBSD and multiple work-in-progress trees, or head and stable
> > branches, etc.) using "git worktree" will share the .git directory and
> > in total will occupy less space than the equivalent in svn.
>
> > I'd expect clones to take minutes, although cgit-beta is running on a
> > lower spec jail host and might have trouble if many people are cloning
> > at the same time.
>
> 2.5 GB in .git directory sounds crazy and incomprehensible to me.
>
> Only src tree I would be interested in now is HEAD (13-current), though I
> would also want the ports and doc trees.  Would that mollify the diskspace
> bloat?
>
> I had trouble with the ethernet and wireless network drivers in FreeBSD 12
> and 13-current, but there subsequently was a post on a big improvement to
> the network drivers for HEAD but not 12-stable.
>
> So I am abandoning FreeBSD 12.x .
>
> Hopefully I could update 13-current from within 13-current where I have no
> internet access but could use git from NetBSD, where I also have svn.
>
> Tom
>
Not really much different from subversion. .svn in /usr/sys is also 2.5G,
at least for 12.1.
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