From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dhruva Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 10:39:48 +0530 Message-ID: References: <20080101171120.GC3830@muc.de> <20080103010807.GB13318@kobe.laptop> <85wsqqnfce.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85bq80mgut.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85fxxbjjk2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199682599 8035 80.91.229.12 (7 Jan 2008 05:09:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 05:09:59 +0000 (UTC) To: sds@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 07 06:10:20 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JBkFg-00007k-0z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:10:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBkFJ-00077k-4I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:09:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBkFE-00077e-KL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:09:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBkFC-00076c-Dy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:09:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBkFC-00076Z-9O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:09:50 -0500 Original-Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.181]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBkFB-0007oZ-VQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:09:50 -0500 Original-Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k34so12328283wah.10 for ; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:09:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=QDSkPvLeJHLpsBiNxA+KqN3dlLUL6xw/DD8FZobk+mA=; b=rJF6QFh46utpFRYEroyjtAmA/PQwl67IntIZpjxEcSx7QY/3rTou29XcaVK4BG0jEjD/6nWZUarmkBej8akNTeoX5HQEIqfFx6MHi+OLIvwGCoQjWKsun3oo9irDobPAvTd0r+aItITQjhAw1maq0DSxCSFIwZdu1hmZ2DaIO08= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=B2PC8xHq1UZ3+VHMzNr2mH/vd2nFLAPnPwdjVZyFL7A60KXr5/vHnXpEyZCZoteD9Z0EpKAk7J/mBONPShoLo2bxHDA2SutWCX4N4dpabVAkwGCuYzGjsoQacZ20V5yM93zGjOsV7Dcl9tdabq2V5GhGwQ/RmGsx6Pkcz6xE6n8= Original-Received: by 10.114.36.1 with SMTP id j1mr4421191waj.35.1199682589027; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:09:49 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.115.73.12 with HTTP; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 21:09:48 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:86430 Archived-At: Hi, On Jan 7, 2008 10:22 AM, Sam Steingold wrote: > Note however that with CVS, getting CVS head and building it is hardly > more expensive than downloading a source tarball - wrt both bandwidth > and disk space. With git, the situation is vastly different: you cannot > just get the head, you always get the whole change history, so instead > of 40MB, you will be getting and storing 200MB. This may not be a big > deal these days for many people, but it might be a showstopper for some. FWIK, there are options to specify the depth of revision history you want in a clone. You can reduce the data size. The GIT/Mercurial repository frontend has an option to make a snapshot of the current repository. People could use that feature too. IMHO, it is something that is realizable with dVCS. -dky -- Contents reflect my personal views only!