Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Michael Davidsaver <[email protected]> · Thu, 14 Dec 2017 07:38:07 -0600

I avoid the redundant download with:

> git clone --branch core/master https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base.git
> git submodule update --init --reference .

Note that the second line ends with a dot '.'.

On 12/14/2017 02:20 AM, Torsten Bögershausen wrote:
> Hej,
> Yesterday I was sitting on a 3Mbit/sec line I was cloning base from Git,
> I realized that "base" needs to be transferred 4 times.
> I got 4 pack files, each 95M.
> One for base, modules/ca, modules/database, modules/libcom/
> 
> 99 234 251 ./.git/modules/modules/ca/objects/pack/pack-08cf7dbc8f8108176628acb637cfa5d864f0aa43.pack
> 99234251 ./.git/modules/modules/database/objects/pack/pack-08cf7dbc8f8108176628acb637cfa5d864f0aa43.pack
> 99234251 ./.git/modules/modules/libcom/objects/pack/pack-08cf7dbc8f8108176628acb637cfa5d864f0aa43.pack
> 99234251 ./.git/objects/pack/pack-08cf7dbc8f8108176628acb637cfa5d864f0aa43.pack
> 
> I think this is because the modularization was done without running
> "git filter-branch".
> 
> My first question:
> Does anybody else feels that this is a problem to download
> 4*95 Mbyte, when 1*95 Mbyte enough ?
> 
> And if yes, what should we do about it?
> a) Undo the modularization.  Keep ca, database, libcom in the same
>    Git as before ?
> b) Run Git filter-branch and try a surgery on the Gits?
> c) Leave everything as it is ?
> 
> Any thoughts and opinions ?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 01/12/17 01:20, Andrew Johnson wrote:
>> I just tagged, tarred, tested uploaded and pushed the -rc1, but I don't
>> have time to write the announcement email for tech-talk tonight. If no
>> one else feels like doing so I'll get to it tomorrow morning.
>>
>> - Andrew
>>

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System