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From: Jean-Luc Herren <jlh@gmx.ch>
To: Arafangion <thestar@fussycoder.id.au>
Cc: Tzury Bar Yochay <tzury.by@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is there a way to control the number of revisions will be	saved by git
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:04:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <493683C6.8060902@gmx.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1228304226.23167.8.camel@therock.nsw.bigpond.net.au>

Arafangion wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 13:01 +0200, Tzury Bar Yochay wrote:
> <snip>
>> Say I wish to save only 100 generations back (per branch).
>> Is it possible to configure git so it will save only N records back.
> 
> What would be the advantage in doing that?

That would be a shallow repository, as is already supported by
"git clone --depth 100".  It can be useful for a number of things,
for example developing simple patches on top of HEAD and sending
them somewhere.

What the OP might want is a way to convert a full repository into
a shallow one (can be done by cloning and deleting the original),
and then be able to make it shallower from time to time, to limit
it to 100 revisions; not sure if that is possible.

jlh

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-03 13:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-03 11:01 Is there a way to control the number of revisions will be saved by git Tzury Bar Yochay
2008-12-03 11:22 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-12-03 12:58   ` Jakub Narebski
2008-12-03 13:40     ` Miklos Vajna
2008-12-03 11:37 ` Arafangion
2008-12-03 13:04   ` Jean-Luc Herren [this message]
2008-12-03 12:47 ` Tzury Bar Yochay
2008-12-03 18:20 ` Tzury Bar Yochay
2008-12-03 18:23   ` Tzury Bar Yochay

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