[llvm-dev] Git Transition status?

[C Bergström via llvm-dev]

github would probably do a 1GB limit exception for the project, but
you'd need to ask them. Personally I'm against the mono project for
reasons others have stated before.

On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Erik Olofsson via llvm-dev
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> On 17 Jan 2017, at 01:17, Chris Lattner via llvm-dev
> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>> - The download size of a mono-repo is manageable, and seems scalable for a project the size of LLVM (including reasonable growth over the next 10 years).
>
> Did you consider that GitHub has a 1GB size limit/recommendation?
> https://help.github.com/articles/what-is-my-disk-quota/
>
> The full mono-repo is already approaching this limit:
> llvm-project 1.5G (.git 871M) (GitHub API 830,702K)
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 4:24 PM, David Chisnall via llvm-dev
> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>
>> I would be in favour of a monorepo for everything that links against LLVM libraries and everything else being in separate repos.
>
> I agree fully. I work on a project that use submodules for external
> dependencies. For llvm this means compiling and linking statically
> with dependencies for Linux and OSX platforms. So these:
>
> (compiler-rt, libcxx, libcxxabi, libunwind) 141M  (.git 60M)
>
> I would hesitate to add a dependency that use 1.5G disk space, so if
> you go with the mono-repo approach I would probably use the supposed
> read only mirror repos for these modules.
>
> This in turn would mean that the hurdle for contributing back to these
> projects would increase and thus the the likelihood of contributions.
>
> Consolidating other projects with interdependencies into other
> mono-repos would also make sense. E.g. libcxx with dependencies.
>
>
>
> The most important thing is to make a decision.  I have some small
> contributions just waiting for a sane contribution process (GitHub
> pull requests) ;)
>
> Erik
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