Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] vcs0 disk filling up, /var/cache/cgit again

[Bob Proulx]

Leo Famulari wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > I am also seeing a lot of cgit snapshot activity.  Across all of the
> > projects.  Here is one example.
> > 
> >   [13/Mar/2017:12:34:45 -0400] "GET /cgit/guix.git/snapshot/master.tar.gz 
> > HTTP/1.1" 200 11642975 "-" "GNU Guile"
> 
> This is used in Guix as part of our update mechanism.

It isn't just guix.  There are a lot of the various projects that are
using that feature.  I just picked one and noted it in passing while
looking at the other things.  Sorry.  I didn't mean to make it feel
like I was picking on guix.  I should have picked at least three for
the example so it didn't feel like I was poking at guix specifically.
Sorry.  My bad.

> Specifically, the command `guix pull` [0] downloads that snapshot to
> accomplish something that you can consider analogous to `apt-get update`
> on dpkg / apt systems.
> 
> We plan for `guix pull` to evolve to use Git directly rather than
> downloading a tarball, but we aren't there yet.
> 
> [0]
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/scripts/pull.scm

I appreciate the explanation anyway! :-)

Bob