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> we have folks in Europe that can't even clone the repo due to it's size. What is it about Europe that makes it more difficult? That internet in Europe isn't as good? Actually, I have heard that some primary schools in Europe lack internet. My grandson's elementary school in rural California (population <10k) had internet as far back as 1998.
> we have folks in Europe that can't even clone the repo due to it's size. What is it about Europe that makes it more difficult? That internet in Europe isn't as good? Actually, I have heard that some primary schools in Europe lack internet. My grandson's elementary school in rural California (population <10k) had internet as far back as 1998.
> we have folks in Europe that can't even clone the repo due to it's size. What is it about Europe that makes it more difficult? That internet in Europe isn't as good? Actually, I have heard that some primary schools in Europe lack internet. My grandson's elementary school in rural California (population <10k) had internet as far back as 1998.
> We work in a very large Javascript monorepo at Microsoft we colloquially call 1JS.
> we have folks in Europe that can't even clone the repo due to it's size. What is it about Europe that makes it more difficult? That internet in Europe isn't as good? Actually, I have heard that some primary schools in Europe lack internet. My grandson's elementary school in rural California (population <10k) had internet as far back as 1998.
first of all "internet in Europe" makes close to zero sense to argue about. The article just uses it as a shortcut to not start listing countries.
I live in a country where I have 10Gbps full-duplex and I pay 50$ / month, in "Europe".
The issue is that some countries have telecom lobbies which are still milking their copper networks. Then the "competition committees" in most of these countries are actually working AGAINST the benefit of the public, because they don't allow 1 single company to start offering fiber, because that would be a competition advantage. So the whole system is kinda in a deadlock. In order to unblock, at least 2 telecoms have to agree to release fiber deals together. It has happened in some countries.
> we have folks in Europe that can't even clone the repo due to it's size. What is it about Europe that makes it more difficult? That internet in Europe isn't as good? Actually, I have heard that some primary schools in Europe lack internet. My grandson's elementary school in rural California (population <10k) had internet as far back as 1998.
> Large blobs happens when someone accidentally checks in some binary, so, not much you can do > Retroactively, once the file is there though, it's semi stuck in history. Arguably, the fix for that is to run filter-branch, remove the offending binary, teach and get everyone setup to use git-lfs for binaries, force push, and help everyone get their workstation to a good place. Far from ideal, but better than having a…
As someone else noted, this is about small, frequently changing files, so you could remove old versions from the history to save space, and use LFS going forward.
> For many reasons, that's just too big, we have folks in Europe that can't even clone the repo due to it's size. What's up with folks in Europe that they can't clone a big repo, but others can? Also it sounds like they still won't be able to clone, until the change is implemented on the server side? > This meant we were in many occasions just pushing the entire file again and again, which could be 10s of MBs per fil…
I read that as an anecdote, a more complete sentence would be "We had a story where someone from Europe couldn't clone the whole repo on his laptop for him to use on a journey across Europe because his disk is full at the time. He has since cleared up the disk and able to clone the repo".
I don't think it points to a larger issue with Europe not being able to handle 180GB files...I surely hope so.