[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 00/16] Move the Mesa Website to Sphinx

[Daniel Stone]

Hi Dylan,

On 4 June 2018 at 19:18, Dylan Baker <dylan at pnwbakers.com> wrote:
> Quoting Daniel Stone (2018-06-03 13:19:51)
>> One thing I've just remembered is that https://www.mesa3d.org/archive/
>> serves all the tarballs for Mesa releases. Given how Pages is
>> structured, we don't have a good way to redirect these to the old
>> server, so the Pages repository needs to hold all the tarballs. This
>> probably suggests to me that the site should live in a different repo,
>> where we can just commit all the tarballs.
>>
>> I reflexively didn't love the idea of committing tarballs to a git
>> repository, but the more I think about it, the more I like the idea.
>> It makes it more clear where they're coming from, makes the provenance
>> easier to verify, gives us audit logs of who put them in, and so on.
>
> Have you considered git-lfs? I don't know if we've got it set up, but gitlab
> supports it and it's pretty nice for dealing with repos with large binary files.

Is git-lfs mainly about supporting large individual files, or large
collections of relatively small files? The tarballs aren't massive,
there are just tons of them. If it does seem like a good idea, I'll
get it set up in our instance.

Cheers,
Daniel