<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Norbert</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your interest and for spotting the typo. Tomorrow's TeX Hour will be Thursday 24 June, at 6:30 to 7:30pm UK time. As that is at 2:30am Japan time, I don't expect you'll be attending. But there will be video available afterwards.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr">You wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I guess one can try that out by git cloning my git-svn repo with<br>
git clone --depth 1 --branch trunk ...<br>
that should only fetch one release of all the files.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>My set of files was defined to avoid documentation files, and files that aren't used by anyone, and binary executables. In other words, only files that are input by tex and similar programs for typesetting purposes (and which lie in TeX Live), and which are used by members of this list.</div><div><br></div><div>So your suggestion of fetching a single release would not be minimal for the purpose I have in mind.</div><div><br></div><div> You also wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
And we would need to push --force so that the history does not grow.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We don't know that yet. It all depends on how big 'all useful texlive input files' is, over the years.</div><div><br></div><div>And there need not be any history, and so no need to use --force! An 'orphan' commit has no parents. We can create as many of these as we wish! Not just the usual first commit to the main branch.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://git-scm.com/docs/git-checkout#Documentation/git-checkout.txt---orphanltnewbranchgt">https://git-scm.com/docs/git-checkout#Documentation/git-checkout.txt---orphanltnewbranchgt</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Please recall that I'm intending in this thread to use git as a distributed peer-to-peer content addressable store. I'll use its version control features only as strictly required for these purposes.</div><div><br></div><div>You have a special importance to TeX Live. To allow us to talk, I'm happy to schedule a future TeX Hour meeting at a time that suits you (as long it also suits me).</div><div><br></div><div>best regards</div><div><br></div><div>Jonathan</div></div></div>