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List:       openembedded-core
Subject:    Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] gstreamer: use git to fetch the sources
From:       "Otavio Salvador" <otavio.salvador () ossystems ! com ! br>
Date:       2020-10-31 20:29:57
Message-ID: CAP9ODKp5US_QbOxB_GQiCjnh9zPfpLeqNeSdD5hPgVxupJS97w () mail ! gmail ! com
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Em sex., 30 de out. de 2020 Ã s 21:32, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> escreveu:
> On Fri, 2020-10-30 at 23:22 +0000, Jose Quaresma wrote:
> > gstreamer has the code hosted on [1] and this repo as tags.
> > manage code with git its more convenient than with tarball archives.
> >
> > [1] - https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jose Quaresma <quaresma.jose@gmail.com>
>
> I'm not 100% sure about this. Tarballs tend to be less overhead for
> fetching and make for easier source archiving. The git repos are easier
> for day to day dev work but tend to be harder for the AUH to handle and
> slower to fetch for the users taking up more space to download and
> unpack. I'm therefore torn. I know where we have used git for other
> core components it has caused performance issues.

We could tune the git fetcher to not download whole history, we it'd
be  a win win case no?

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