Re: bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move

[joakim]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:

> () James Cloos <address@hidden>
> () Thu, 02 Jan 2014 13:15:35 -0500
>
>    > [512M not enough for "git gc --aggressive"]
>
>    Rent a large enough cloud box for an hour, do the git-bzr clone
>    and aggressive gc there, and then rsync the .git directory to
>    your box.  Or tar and wget it.  Once downloaded, git checkout
>    will complete things.
>
>    DigitalOcean.com, Atlantic.net, iwStack.com, as well as Goog
>    and Amazon have suitable offerings which would cost less than
>    USD1 for the hour or two it would take for the clone and gc.
>
> Thanks for the tip.  Using such services never occurred to me.
>
>    (A swap file may be needed for some of the hourly plans to
>    complete the gc.)
>
> Do you happen to know the maximum transient memory usage for
> "git gc --aggressive"?


I have a box at www.verona.se where i could offer such a service free of
charge to emacs devs, if anyone wants it. It sits in my cupboard, but
has 100mbit link.


I already have plenty of emacs stuff on that box.
-- 
Joakim Verona