Plans for git (was: Please check the current beta git conversions)

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 10:21 AM bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 10:59:18PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> >
> > I have this out for review.
> >
> > https://hackmd.io/hJgnfzd5TMK-VHgUzshA2g
> >
>
> Excellent. Clone is running now, into a private home directory.
> There was a little confusion about the "main" vs "master" branch
> naming. "Master" seems to work, I expected "main" to be the
> correct term.
>

If you grabbed it from github, master is the right branch. The new cgit
beta one is main.


> Sze estimates for deep and shallow clones might be helpful for
> small-system users, perhaps with a comparison to svnlite behavior.
>

IIRC, I saw 2.2GB for full and 1.6GB for shallow. Compared to 2G for
svnlite. But that's my bad memory...


> Has it become possible to build as a regular user, saving root for
> installation only?
>

For quite some time now. Yes.

Warner


> Thank you!
>
> bob prohaska
>
>