From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jan Janak Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs source snapshots Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 15:05:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1304501969.6763.1448069069@webmail.messagingengine.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304535933 22784 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2011 19:05:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 19:05:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Grigorios Bouzakis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 04 21:05:29 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QHhO4-00060T-Cu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 21:05:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36017 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHhO3-0007Nd-KB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 15:05:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:48960) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHhO1-0007NJ-Ho for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 15:05:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHhO0-0003FZ-Cp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 15:05:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-gw0-f41.google.com ([74.125.83.41]:54363) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QHhO0-0003FV-AP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 May 2011 15:05:24 -0400 Original-Received: by gwaa12 with SMTP id a12so637227gwa.0 for ; Wed, 04 May 2011 12:05:23 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.236.190.74 with SMTP id d50mr1727467yhn.425.1304535923110; Wed, 04 May 2011 12:05:23 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.236.108.37 with HTTP; Wed, 4 May 2011 12:05:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1304501969.6763.1448069069@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 74.125.83.41 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:139115 Archived-At: If you use the git mirror, you may want to consider using the --depth cmdline option of git-clone. That option can be used to truncate the commit history to a specific number of commits. -Jan On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrot= e: > Hello, is it possible to provide frequent source snapshots of the > Emacs source tree? For example once a week? The git tree from github [1] = [2] is currently > 700 mb, its getting bigger on each commit and pretty fas= t. I dont know how big the bzr tree currently is. It would be useful for pe= ople who dont want to get directly involved with Emacs development, but sti= ll want a very recent version of it. For most these people keeping track of= commit history doesnt make sense. > AFAIK there is an unofficial repository providing binary packages for Deb= ian and Ubuntu packages [3] plus Ubuntu has emacs-snapshot in their univers= e repository but package is from 2009 [4]. Hopefully providing frequent sna= pshots of the sources tree will ease things for everyone as the Emacs sourc= es without commit history are ~100mb. Anyone else finds this a good idea? > > [1]: https://github.com/emacsmirror/emacs > [2]: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsFromGit > [3]: http://emacs.naquadah.org > [4]: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=3Demacs-snapshot > -- > Greg > >