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From: Amirouche Boubekki <amirouche.boubekki@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Large git repositories
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 13:31:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL7_Mo-8v2FFUZ5wkt=QNjUvEBJCtCwD3OQx5L2eFhqB=S7Mqg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20150112220332.GA20174@debian

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On Mon Jan 12 2015 at 11:03:48 PM Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to package the droid font family. It appears to be available
> only via the android git at:
>    https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+
> /android-4.4.4_r2.0.1/data/fonts/
> where
>    https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base.git
> defines the git repository.
>
> This page contains a tgz download link:
>    https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+
> archive/android-4.4.4_r2.0.1/data/fonts.tar.gz
> Unfortunately, the file seems to be generated on the fly and have a
> different hash value each time.
>
> The git-reference method seems to clone all of the repository, which has
> about 1.5 GB. I tried several methods by hand, such as
>    git clone -b android-4.4.4_r2.0.1 https://android.googlesource.
> com/platform/frameworks/base.git data/fonts
> or
>    git init; git fetch https://android.googlesource.
> com/platform/frameworks/base.git android-4.4.4_r2.0.1
> but all of them apparently download the full repository.
>
> I also tried
>    git archive --remote=https://android.googlesource.com/platform/
> frameworks/base.git android-4.4.4_r2.0.1 data/fonts
> but the git server apparently does not support this:
> fatal: Operation not supported by protocol.
> (and I am also not sure that the output would have a fixed hash).
>
> Do you see any solution to this problem?
>

Google web fonts has droid font available in zip format via http [1],
not sure if the link is works across updates.

There is also the mercurial repository hosting all web fonts [2]. It's
quite big 4,1G and AFAIK there is no “hg clone --depth=1”


[1]
http://www.google.com/fonts#UsePlace:use/Collection:Droid+Sans:400,700|Droid+Sans+Mono|Droid+Serif:400,700,400italic,700italic

[2] https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/checkout

Andreas
>
>
>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-13 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-12 22:03 Large git repositories Andreas Enge
2015-01-12 22:45 ` Andreas Enge
2015-01-12 23:01   ` Andreas Enge
2015-01-13 10:32   ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-13 13:31 ` Amirouche Boubekki [this message]
2015-01-22 19:19   ` Andreas Enge
2015-01-23  8:35     ` Ludovic Courtès

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