From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12087 invoked by alias); 22 Aug 2013 20:21:10 -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 12070 invoked by uid 89); 22 Aug 2013 20:21:10 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients Received: from mail-we0-f172.google.com (HELO mail-we0-f172.google.com) (74.125.82.172) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 20:21:09 +0000 Received: by mail-we0-f172.google.com with SMTP id t60so2198220wes.3 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:21:06 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.194.202.230 with SMTP id kl6mr12230511wjc.9.1377202866914; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:21:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.194.205.136 with HTTP; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:21:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201308222010.r7MKAljG013904@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> References: <8738q4gj7a.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <201308222010.r7MKAljG013904@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 20:21:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: A Proposal to Move to Git From: Fred Cooke To: Mark Kettenis Cc: Tom Tromey , GDB Development , binutils Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-SW-Source: 2013-08/txt/msg00103.txt.bz2 Binutils, as is, @ 13d568a676e8e6038195199b1f005cdcc88d47f5 is 252meg including the checkout, of which 82meg is the .git dir, and the balance the checkout. It's VERY efficient. On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Mark Kettenis wrote: >> From: Tom Tromey >> CC: Binutils Development >> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:12:41 -0600 >> >> I'd like to move gdb and binutils from CVS to Git. I've done much of >> the preliminary work and I will do the remainder, including the >> inevitable follow-up bug-fixing. > > I still *hate* git. Hate it even more now that I've used it for a > project. It gets in my way; it never does what I want, at least not > by default. It's slow; updating a tree takes significantly more time > than with cvs as it insists that I stash my local changes first. It's > buggy; I had it just sit there and spin forever on a git pull on > several occasions. It encourages the annoying "send the gazillian > diffs in a series again, just because I've fixed a single spelling > mistake in one of them" behaviour. But it seems I'm the only one in > the world who doesn't "git" it, so I'll shut up. > > Except for one tiny question. How much free space do I need to clone > the future gdb repo and do useful work with it? Some of my machines > don't have a lot of free disk space. Sparse checkouts don't really > work. And it seems you can't do any real development from a shallow > clone. So if the answer to the my question is that I need at least 1G > of disk space, then there is a problem.