From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32521 invoked by alias); 7 Apr 2014 14:52:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 32466 invoked by uid 89); 7 Apr 2014 14:52:44 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl Received: from sibelius.xs4all.nl (HELO glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl) (83.163.83.176) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 07 Apr 2014 14:52:42 +0000 Received: from glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl (kettenis@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.5/8.14.3) with ESMTP id s37EqLC8023339; Mon, 7 Apr 2014 16:52:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from kettenis@localhost) by glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.5/8.14.3/Submit) id s37EqLB9024528; Mon, 7 Apr 2014 16:52:21 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 14:52:00 -0000 Message-Id: <201404071452.s37EqLB9024528@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> From: Mark Kettenis To: matz@suse.de CC: brobecker@adacore.com, aaro.koskinen@iki.fi, sergiodj@redhat.com, emachado@linux.vnet.ibm.com, gdb@sourceware.org, binutils@sourceware.org, bergner@vnet.ibm.com, tuliom@linux.vnet.ibm.com In-reply-to: (message from Michael Matz on Mon, 7 Apr 2014 16:27:22 +0200 (CEST)) Subject: Re: Vendor branches on sourceware.org's binutils-gdb repo References: <53406399.9050303@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20140406191404.GC7558@drone.musicnaut.iki.fi> <20140407035120.GA4186@adacore.com> X-SW-Source: 2014-04/txt/msg00011.txt.bz2 > Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 16:27:22 +0200 (CEST) > From: Michael Matz > > Hi, > > On Sun, 6 Apr 2014, Joel Brobecker wrote: > > > > I think it's very useful for users to have all vendor branches in a > > > single repository. At least with glibc this has helped me a lot (as a > > > user) when identifying and cherry-picking needed fixes to my own > > > systems. > > > > FWIW: I have found that the extra branches are just making me download > > lots of commits that I have no use for, and I suspect that this is the > > case for many of us. That's the default behavior, and most users will be > > impacted by those. While it's convenient, it is also very easy to pull a > > branch from another repository. > > But it's not necessarily easy for the vendor to _host_ that other > repository. Really? Are there really companies that are active in the Free Software community that don't have the infrastructure to host a relatively small git repo? > And IMHO, the current 288 MB for binutils-gdb git objects aren't > enough to discourage vendor branches (and if you're worried about > the download size it's equally easy to simply not pull those > branches). Size is an issue for me. I try to support GDB on many platforms, some of which are somewhat old or low power and don't have a lot of disk storage. I'm already running into problems on some of my machines. And every time git messes up my repo because I run out of disk space (or just because it doesn't seem to properly implement DWIM) I need to fetch everything all over again. So how do I tell git to only clone master and not give me everybody else's shit? Last time I tried to do that, it simply didn't work.