[Bf-committers] move prebuilt libs from svn to git?

[Chad Fraleigh]

On 6/16/2022 11:51 PM, Ankit via Bf-committers wrote:
> Tom:
> 1. Unlike SVN checkout, git checkout cannot be resumed. It starts
>   over if interrupted.
> 2. .git folder's size will blow up with every release. Git is not
>   so good for binary files.

Yes, plain vanilla git would be bad with them.

If I understand LFS correctly, it only holds object references. So even if the pull can't be restarted, it would only have the [small] references to download. The actual downloading of the [large] binary files is moved to the checkout phase (which doesn't appear to be an all-or-nothing step). But I could be wrong.

> 
> Chad:
> 
> https://developer.blender.org/T73511
> https://developer.blender.org/T73394

These are from about 2 years ago. So if there were still any blocking issues back then, support for LFS should have grown since (at least enough to re-evaluate the feasibility of migration).

> 
> Cheers
> Ankit
> 
> 
> On 17/06/22 00:45, Chad Fraleigh via Bf-committers wrote:
>> I've been kind of wondering if they would eventually be migrated too. I only update my local libs occasionally, so it has a tenancy to fail if doing a large update spanning many revisions. Plus the benefit of not having to use two different tools.
>>
>> Now with Git LFS being more widespread, it should mitigate the issue with all the large binary libraries.
>>
>> On 6/16/2022 11:43 AM, Tom M via Bf-committers wrote:
>>> When checking out the libraries from SVN following the directions on
>>>
>>> https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Building_Blender/Windows
>>>
>>> The svn checkout of the libraries fails with significant frequency,
>>>
>>> if you google you might stumble across using make svnfix
>>>
>>> https://www.mail-archive.com/bf-blender-cvs@blender.org/msg151996.html
>>>
>>> Even after using it, I'm still having to do Ctrl C, and then make
>>> svnfix repeatedly (it downloads some files, than randomly freezes,
>>> sometimes after 20-50 files, sometimes after 100's of files).
>>>
>>> Git doesn't seem to have any problems, though.
>>>
>>> So might we consider migrating the libs to git, rather than using SVN?
>>>
>>> LetterRip
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