From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Git transition checklist Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 11:26:03 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140108162603.GC3877@thyrsus.com> References: <20140108135200.8ECF9380834@snark.thyrsus.com> <87wqiams90.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389198402 21806 80.91.229.3 (8 Jan 2014 16:26:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 16:26:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Berman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 08 17:26:50 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W0vxv-0005XH-6d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 17:26:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47683 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0vxu-00044u-Nu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 11:26:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56516) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0vxn-0003yR-4x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 11:26:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0vxi-0007KD-Ck for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 11:26:39 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:59205 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0vxi-0007JJ-8E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 11:26:34 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AD729380834; Wed, 8 Jan 2014 11:26:03 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87wqiams90.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:167744 Archived-At: Stephen Berman : > > Nobody else explicitly suggested any additional preconditions. > > I suggested one > (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-01/msg00594.html): > > On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 15:57:05 +0100 Andreas Schwab wrote: > > > Stephen Berman writes: > > > >> Why is the git repository so much larger than the bzr repository? > > > > The git repositories on savannah appear to be packed rather badly. A > > reasonably well packed emacs repository should have around 350MB. > > Ok. If the packing can be improved, I think it would be good for that > to happen before finalizing the move to git. I have added this to the list. But: 1. Given the restrictions Savannah has on shell access to repository directories, I'm not sure it's possible at all. I have not been able to find any way to force a repack remotely. 2. Really this could be done at any time relative to the switchover. If Andreas can figure out a way to do it, "immediately" would be the best time. -- Eric S. Raymond