[haiku-development] Re: Haiku git migration status?
- From: John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 13:19:39 -0400
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Brecht Machiels <brecht@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At Wednesday, 03-08-2011 on 17:47 Oliver Tappe wrote:
> > On 2011-08-03 at 11:52:33 [+0200], Brecht Machiels <brecht@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:34:54 +0200, Niels Sascha Reedijk
> > > <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > >> Yes, that would be great. There's a problem, though. The 40k+ tags
> do
> > > >> cause Opera to hang on loading the current GitHub Haiku mirror
> > > >> (https://github.com/haiku/haiku). Chrome and Firefox don't choke,
> but
> > > >> take quite some time for opening the tags list, enough to be very
> > > >> annoying. I don't know how Web+ handles things. Also, remember that
> the
> > > >> tags make bash completion unusable for the git command line tools.
> > > >
> > > > I believe the response to that is 'file a bug report.'
> > >
> > > Be my guest. I'd be interested to hear the response :)
> >
> > I already filed a ticket at end of June, yielding the following
> > correspondence:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Clearly, they don't show much intent to fix the problem.
>
> Understandably, as Haiku is the *only* project tagging each and every
> changeset. This is clearly not the intended use for tags. But I don't
> suppose the few people in favor of the tags have changed their mind about it
> yet? :)
>
> Maybe you can choose not to mirror the tags at GitHib? But that kind of
> defeats their purpose.
>
> - Brecht
>
>
Might a solution be to rewrite history to put the svn revision number in the
commit log instead of as a tag?
John Scipione
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