Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 May 2011 09:25:06 +0200 | Subject | Re: Linux 3.0-rc1 | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 07:40, Mariusz Kozlowski <mk@lab.zgora.pl> wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 03:48:49PM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote: >> >You could consider freezing linux-2.6.git repository and creating new >> >linux-3.git repository that would serve for a couple of years until >> >linux-4.git. At the same time development history could be dropped between >> >trees so that inital clones are lighter. Anyone interested in history >> >can download idx/pack from linux-2.6.git repo and attach it using gratf >> >point[1] anyway. >> > >> >Pros: >> >- obvious naming scheme wrt repository contents >> >- smaller initial clone >> >- new clean tag namespace >> > >> >Cons: >> >- broken bisection for some time >> >- impaired log/blame/whatchanged and friends >> >> in addition won't there be problems merging in work done on the old >> tree? (since there would be no common history) > > Everyone would need to restart and probably reapply they changes on top > of new tree (because of lack of common history). > >> everyone would need to re-clone their repository (and attaching >> history wouldn't help this) >> >> there are probably others. >> >> frankly I don't see any real benifits from the Pros you list. the >> initial clone is already rather small, it probably won't make that >> big a difference to throw away several years of history. > > linux-2.6.git is all about lots of small changes so size isn't all that > big today but there are quite many objects. Using grafts might help > decreasing size of repository. I just mentioned it because it is a bit > of a revolution time anyway and otherwise current tree will grow for next > decade or so.
NAK. I regularly look into full-history-linux as linux-2.6.git doesn't have enough history for me. Please don't make it worse.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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