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Re: [cdt-dev] Git/Gerrit Proposal
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On Jun 9, 2010, at 17:29, Andrew Gvozdev wrote:
If I am able to import to the workspace only selected project, that
will eliminate 1 of the 2 issues. I'd still have to pull all the
mass of the great changes the prolific debug team is contributing.
My internet connection at home is not that great. Well, it won't
make my vote negative anyway. I still think that component level is
best for CDT in general but I can live with any other too.
Yes, regardless of what is in a repository, you can have nothing,
everything, or anywhere in between in the workspace. So you can avoid
having projects if you don't want them in (but they'll still be in the
repository and on disk).
Actually, Git's checkout is insanely faster than anything else. Yes,
it takes a while to do the initial checkout (but hey, it takes an age
for the initial CVS checkout, huh?).
Once you've done the checkout, the incremental deltas that you
download are so small you hardly notice them. Furthermore, unlike CVS
or (AFAIK) SVN, the deltas are compressed, not only individually but
as a whole as well.
And the great thing is, you can work completely disconnected from the
network and continue to work on changes and patches. I've practically
got into the habit of using 'git commit' like an auto-save feature,
it's that fast/useful.
So if reducing network bandwidth is your goal, then git will be a
great benefit. Try doing a 'cvs checkout' and a 'git clone' and
compare the time it takes to download them. If you want to use a
smaller example set, you can try (the now defunct):
svn checkout http://objectiveclipse.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
objectiveclipse-read-only
vs
git clone git://github.com/alblue/objectiveclipse.git
which contains exactly the same set of code. If you can't speak git
over a firewall, then you can do:
git clone http://github.com/alblue/objectiveclipse.git
- but make sure you're using git 1.7 to get the best performance of
git over http for a sane test.
Alex
