Re: Creating something like increasing revision numbers

[Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> (please Cc)
>
> I am managing some of my projects with git and I am quite happy about it.
>
> There is another project I am working that is quite big, the subversion
> checkout is about 14Gb. Doing svn up is a pain, it has to open tens of
> thousands of files and directories traversing the whole tree, trashing
> the fs cache and taking ages.
>
> My idea was to move to git, from what I read it should be more capable
> in handling these type of projects.
>
> Now, there is one show-stopper I see. From our repository we create a
> set of "packages", and the maximum of the "last-changed" revisions of
> the contained files determine the "version" of the package. This
> guarantees that any change in a file will increase the revision number
> of the package (some tricks for removals have to be done). This is necessary
> since we are distributing the packages from servers and the version number
> pf a package determines whether it should be upgraded (well known concept).
>
> Now my question, is there any way to set up something similar with git?
>
> My idea is that git - like subversion - could (if asked to) count each
> commit (global to the repository, irrelevant of the branch) and give it
> a version number. Since we all will use a bare repository on a server
> and pull/push from/to there, I think that something similar could be possible.

There is a large LKML thread discussing this....
http://lwn.net/Articles/355923/

>
> So, before I delve into more gitty-nitty conversion, let me know if
> there is any chance for that, or we should stay with subversion.
>
> Thanks a lot and all the best
>
> Norbert
>
> PS: for those interested, it is TeX Live: www.tug.org/texlive
>
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Jon Smirl
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