Re: how to shrink a repository

Hi Yves

Am 18.03.2015 um 14:32 schrieb Yves Blusseau:
> 
>> Le 14 mars 2015 à 20:12, kp kirchdoerfer <[email protected]> a écrit :
>>
>> Hi Yves;
>>
...

> 
> i have answer the question in the LEAF upgrade thread :D.
> The best for me, (and it is what i use at work) is to use my git-store command to manage the package repository.
> With this you have the profit of versioning the packages and group the packages by version/architecture using branches without needed to retrieve all the binaries.
> 
> I have "transform" your git repository https://sourceforge.net/p/leaf/packages/ci/master/tree/ to a "git-store repository": https://sourceforge.net/p/leaf/packages-store/ci/master/tree/ so you can see the difference between the two.
> 
> use git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/leaf/packages-store leaf-packages-store and you will retrieve the tree without the binaries.

What is this for? What can one do without the content?

> 
> Now with the git-store command you can retrieve any packages you want using the transport protocol that was used to clone the repository.

That is all fine, but there is no git-store on the leaf boxes (and I
doubt there will ever be).

> See the Readme.txt file for information (https://sourceforge.net/p/leaf/packages-store/ci/master/tree/Readme.txt)

Great..... What does it do? Is this an interface to git? What is the
difference between a git repository and this git-store built repository
and why does git not provide the same functionality?

I am afraid you expect an in depth knowledge of git to understand what
you did.

thanks

Erich

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