Checkout entire release with git

[Jesse Keating]

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On 8/17/10 1:07 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On 08/16/2010 03:01 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
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>> On 8/16/10 1:38 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>>> Is it possible to checkout an entire Fedora release now with git?  I used to
>>> have a checkout of the "devel" branch which was useful for grepping all of the
>>> spec files.
>>
>> Not without some scripting.  We no longer create the hack that made this
>> possible.
> 
> Initial attempt is here:
> 
> https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-packager/ticket/58
> 
> Proceeding with checkout now.  About 3 seconds/package, 10,667 packages = 
> almost 9 hours.  Not sure what it was with CVS.  Much less connection overhead 
> in that case I think.
> 
> I wonder if submodules could be harnessed for this?
> 

Submodules were/are quite painful to use in git.  Still very bolt on.
If you're able to create a long term ssh socket to the git server you
could re-use the connection and save a significant portion of the
connection overhead.

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Jesse Keating
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