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| From | Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.text.tex |
| Subject | Re: A Python script to put CTAN into git (from DVDs) |
| Date | 2011-11-07 00:21 +0530 |
| Organization | Netfront http://www.netfront.net/ |
| Message-ID | <82hb2hqe30.fsf@gmail.com> (permalink) |
| References | <4EB6A522.3020909@pytex.org> |
On Sun, Nov 06 2011,Jonathan Fine wrote: > Hi > > This it to let you know that I'm writing (in Python) a script that > places the content of CTAN into a git repository. > https://bitbucket.org/jfine/python-ctantools > > I'm working from the TeX Collection DVDs that are published each year > by the TeX user groups, which contain a snapshot of CTAN (about > 100,000 files occupying 4Gb), which means I have to unzip folders and > do a few other things. > unlike CVS where you can only get HEAD(or specifically a version), this git repository....umm...won't it replicate the entire history locally to the user's machine; all 4GB + deltas? In 2 years time, say, won't it have all the different versions which might not be of consequence for the general user populace? I'm not objecting to your project but why git with its local storage model for this? [snipped 22 lines] sivaram -- --- Posted via news://freenews.netfront.net/ - Complaints to news@netfront.net ---
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A Python script to put CTAN into git (from DVDs) Jonathan Fine <jfine@pytex.org> - 2011-11-06 15:17 +0000
Re: A Python script to put CTAN into git (from DVDs) Jonathan Fine <jfine@pytex.org> - 2011-11-06 18:19 +0000
Re: A Python script to put CTAN into git (from DVDs) Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> - 2011-11-06 21:28 +0100
Re: A Python script to put CTAN into git (from DVDs) Jonathan Fine <jfine@pytex.org> - 2011-11-07 20:21 +0000
Re: A Python script to put CTAN into git (from DVDs) Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> - 2011-11-07 22:49 +0100
Re: A Python script to put CTAN into git (from DVDs) Jonathan Fine <jfine@pytex.org> - 2011-11-07 22:03 +0000
Re: A Python script to put CTAN into git (from DVDs) Jonathan Fine <jfine@pytex.org> - 2011-11-07 20:21 +0000
Re: A Python script to put CTAN into git (from DVDs) Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> - 2011-11-06 12:29 -0800
Re: A Python script to put CTAN into git (from DVDs) Jonathan Fine <jfine@pytex.org> - 2011-11-06 18:19 +0000
Re: A Python script to put CTAN into git (from DVDs) Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> - 2011-11-07 00:21 +0530
Re: A Python script to put CTAN into git (from DVDs) Jonathan Fine <jfine@pytex.org> - 2011-11-06 19:06 +0000
Re: A Python script to put CTAN into git (from DVDs) Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> - 2011-11-07 20:17 +0530
Re: A Python script to put CTAN into git (from DVDs) Jonathan Fine <jfine@pytex.org> - 2011-11-07 20:32 +0000
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