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Noto repository is huge, we should perhaps break it to some pieces #356

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
With all the various copies of the CJK fonts, the Noto git repository is now 
huge (3.4GB). It takes a very long time to git clone it, even at work.

This discourages outside contribution, and slows down work.

It's probably a good idea to start breaking it into pieces. nototools (on which 
I have a dependency) can clearly be broken apart, and so can Noto CJK (which is 
perhaps the major contributor to size).

Original issue reported on code.google.com by roozbeh@google.com on 28 Apr 2015 at 1:20

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Sample feedback from Indic expert living in India:

"Dear Roozbeh, Is there a separate nototools repo? I am not interested in 
cloning the
entire Noto repo and there doesn't seem to be any way to clone part of
a git repo without downloading the entire repo (tried various
stackoverflow questions, learnt a bit about sparse checkout, still
doesn't help)."

Original comment by roozbeh@google.com on 28 Apr 2015 at 6:30

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
+1000.  Lets meet and discuss this early next week.

Original comment by behdad@google.com on 28 Apr 2015 at 8:38