Comments on: git-mirror.gnome.org

By: Muelli

Muelli — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:16:03 +0000

Thanks for your efforts

I’d love to see a mercurial mirror. I’m also willing to help setting it up

By: menko

menko — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:32:35 +0000

> I know some developers in GNOME like mercurial, but no one is providing them with any voice or support.

That’s true. I personally also like mercurial much better, because of its much more consistent UI, but it has less supporters in the public…

But if I am allowed, I will request such a mirror.

Just to have another comparison on how it went, and how it does scale compared to git and bzr.

By: blah

blah — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:26:46 +0000

Any chance you can make this available via git:// instead of http://? It’s way faster.

By: kristian hoegsberg

kristian hoegsberg — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:16:20 +0000

This is all kinds of awesome. I set up the fredesktop cgit install so if you want help with that, track me down on IRC: krh on freenode.

By: John Carr

John Carr — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:51:24 +0000

@menko: Its not up to me to make up a decision and decide on one, all I can do is help make sure the decision is an informed one. I know some developers in GNOME like mercurial, but no one is providing them with any voice or support. But they contribute to GNOME too and deserve to have their opinion considered.

I’ll have a look at cgit, as gitweb isn’t really up to the task of showing summaries for 520 modules yet. Its these kind of scaling problems that we can only see by using the tools, i guess. Hopefully cgit is packaged for etch-backports…

By: menko

menko — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:33:48 +0000

Thanks for the effort, sounds like much work.

Not sure whether it is good to setup one mirror after another, why not just make the step and decide on one?

Besides, tried http://hjemli.net/git/cgit/ for the web page? Actually it’s damn slow…

By: halfline

halfline — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:44:39 +0000

Awesome. Thanks for the effort and time.

By: James Sharpe

James Sharpe — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:17:57 +0000

John: the gtk+ error is a bug in git-svn its apparently fixed in git HEAD.
Jason: you are correct but you don’t have to use git-svn, you can continue to pull from origin and it’ll receive updates. You’ll need to use git-svn though if you want to commit back to the svn repo, that’s the whole point of having to init the git-svn tracking again.
So in answer to Johns q regarding pulling from origin and svn-it just works, since the sha1 hashes should be identical from either source.

By: Jason D. Clinton

Jason D. Clinton — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:27:54 +0000

For anyone reading this as a HOWTO: a git mirror such as the one that has been set up is intended to help you speed up what would otherwise be a multi-hour long process of cloning the entire git history of a module. After cloning this mirror, your remote is still set to the SVN server and you still use git-svn. The mirror just makes it that much easier to get off and running with git-svn. It’s just as though you did git-svn init yourself.