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I'd agree, and there are a number of little things which could improve hackability. The last time I tried to contribute to Firefox, the first hurdle was that t
by cellularmitosis 7y ago
I'd agree, and there are a number of little things which could improve hackability.
The last time I tried to contribute to Firefox, the first hurdle was that the repo contained over ten years of revision history, so it was gigantic.
Having an "archive" repo with a complete revision history would allow trimming the main repo to just the past ~12 months or so.
- fao_ 7y agoIf you use git you can do this with the --depth n option when you pull it down $ git clone --depth 1 https://blah.com/foo/qux https://blah.com/foo/qux will pull down just one step in the history. Unfortunately I believe that mercurial requires a large amount of the history to reconstruct the current version in the tree. Last time I tried to pull down firefox I was unable to because I was working on a system with 1GB of ram and the firefox repository requires at least >2GB to pull down properly -- I believe this is a fundamental defect in mercurial, but I might be mistaken.