From: Juan Zanos Date: 2009-04-25T06:10:03+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Version History On 24 avr. 09, at 16:26, Juan Zanos wrote: > > On 24 avr. 09, at 14:48, Eric Hodel wrote: > >> On Apr 24, 2009, at 06:43, Bruno Sousa wrote: >> >>> I am for something like main differences/improvements between stable >>> versions like 0.95, 1.0, 1.8, 1.9 . >> >> >> I don't believe those are stored anywhere. You'll have to >> construct them from the tags/ directory of the SVN repo. >> > > Ruby's source control system leaves much to be desired. If you > try to checkout tags you'll get gigabytes of mostly redundant > information, which is silly. If you check out trunk you won't get > the tags. > > The ruby source code isn't that large. The actual code in trunk > seems to be only about 15M. The compressed history, including > tags and branches, seems to be only about 13M. With a better > source control system you should be able to download and manage the > entire history without wasting much bandwidth or disk space. That > could be very beneficial. > Reflecting on this it seems surprisingly wasteful given the Ruby community's apparent concern for the environment.