[Opensim-dev] Git tags (again)

[Melanie]

The real cost of the tags is that the repo gets abysmally slow. It's
now reached a point where it's impacting usability as well as
putting too much load on the server. Git wasn't designed to handle a
tag per commit.

- Malenie

On 13/09/2015 23:42, Borun (a.k.a. Boroondas Gupte) wrote:
> Heya all,
> 
> Borun here, almost complete outsider on this project, so correct me if I
> make any wrong assumptions.
> 
> I guess the build tags are made by the continuous integration
> infrastructure and that no significant maintenance is required to keep
> the mechanism that creates them there in place. Thus, if the tags are a
> burden to some (because there are so many of them) but useful to others,
> why not simply have two public repositories, one with the build tags and
> another without? (I'd keep the 'main', i.e. development repository clear
> of the build tags and have the continuous build process sync (fetch) the
> commits over to a 'build' repository (a clone of 'main') where it also
> tags the commits it builds, instead of tagging them on the on the 'main'
> repository as it seems to do today.)
> 
> That way, the 'conversion tool' comes practically for free, has a web
> interface already familiar to those involved *and* is machine readable.
> 
> Tags of wider interest (e.g. to mark versions that are official
> releases) would probably still be made on the 'main' repo and then
> fetched to the 'build' repo.
> 
> Cheers,
> B.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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