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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] archive storage format comments on the size
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] archive storage format comments on the size |
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Mon, 29 Sep 2003 15:09:44 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 02:15:50PM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
> > Patch-logs do not have to retain every entry from all of the history
> > of a tree. They need only retain a subset for the "active region" of
> > history. (In those rare cases where you need to start merging from
> > very old work, if your logs have been pruned since then, sync-tree is
> > your friend.)
> Anyone have guidelines on patch-log pruning, BTW? Maybe `everything older
> than a year and not in the current archive, but keep base-0 tag logs'?
No. It's a bit speculative for me, having only done it once so far
and not needed to go back.
Obviously, for "active versions" -- things you might want to merge to
or from -- keep those entirely.
Inactive versions can be discarded entirely -- although it might be
desirable to keep even the inactive portions of what you consider to
be your `mainline' pedigree.
I like to make ChangeLogs for various versions before doing this so
that, in principle, less information is lost.
Is it desirable to add a mechanism that records "gone but not
forgotten" logs? Perhaps so.... but it's tricky (supposing, for
example, that I later do something that would revert and remove some
of those logs if they were still around).
-t
- [Gnu-arch-users] archive storage format comments on the size, Andrea Arcangeli, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] archive storage format comments on the size, Tom Lord, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] archive storage format comments on the size, Miles Bader, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] archive storage format comments on the size,
Tom Lord <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] archive storage format comments on the size, Andrea Arcangeli, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] archive storage format comments on the size, Andrea Arcangeli, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] archive storage format comments on the size, Tom Lord, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] archive storage format comments on the size, Andrea Arcangeli, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] archive storage format comments on the size, Tom Lord, 2003/09/29
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: archive storage format comments on the size, Miles Bader, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] archive storage format comments on the size, Andrea Arcangeli, 2003/09/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] archive storage format comments on the size, Tom Lord, 2003/09/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] archive storage format comments on the size, Andrea Arcangeli, 2003/09/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] archive storage format comments on the size, Tom Lord, 2003/09/30