[Adium-devl] Let's switch to a DVCS

[Graham Booker]

On Apr 15, 2009, at 12:55 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

> On Apr 15, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Zachary West <zacwest at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:12, Peter Hosey <boredzo at adiumx.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> Full history includes branches. Omitting anything is not full  
>>> history.
>>>
>>> Various tools have choked on it. Last I saw, though, hg convert  
>>> was able to
>>> go all the way in several runs. Again, that's just my memory and I  
>>> might
>>> have forgotten a problem.
>>>
>>> I'm running it right now on my other machine, so we'll see what  
>>> happens.
>>>
>>> It's 1.9 GiB.
>>
>> The mercurial repository? I know svn is about that big, but if we're
>> going to have to download that much to clone, I don't think we can
>> manage.
>
> That's crazy big. Are we going to end up at those levels with any  
> DVCS no matter what over time given the libpurple binary? That might  
> require periodic pruning... Or is there a way to distribute only  
> history from one point forward?

Yeah, every DVCS is going to have about the same size.  I can tell you  
that when I was running a test of the Perian repository, I tried  
excluding the ffmpeg library binary that we used to have in there.  It  
significantly reduced the size, such that the repos was smaller than a  
checkout.  Perhaps a system where the libpurple binaries are separated  
from the rest of the source to keep it manageable?


- Graham


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