From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: full kernel history, in patchset format Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:45:22 +1000 Message-ID: <1113785123.11910.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20050416131528.GB19908@elte.hu> <1113780698.11910.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050417233936.GV1461@pasky.ji.cz> <1113782805.11910.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050418003526.GD1461@pasky.ji.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 18 02:42:22 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DNKL8-0002FA-Ci for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 02:42:14 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261475AbVDRAp7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 20:45:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261581AbVDRAp7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 20:45:59 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:45001 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261475AbVDRApx (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Apr 2005 20:45:53 -0400 Received: from [150.203.247.9] (helo=[172.24.3.18]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.43 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1DNKOX-0003Ut-Bz; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 01:45:47 +0100 To: Petr Baudis In-Reply-To: <20050418003526.GD1461@pasky.ji.cz> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 (2.2.1.1-2) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 02:35 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > > For the special case of removing history before 2.6.12-rc2 from the > > trees, I certainly think we can do it by leaving out all the commits, > > not just the trees. We can do that easily, but there's no way we can > > _add_ that history retrospectively if we omit it in the first place. > > I'm confused by this paragraph, but that might be my English skills > failing somehow. "For the general case of people pruning their own trees, _maybe_ you're right that it would be good to keep the commits even if we delete the actual trees. But for history older than 2.6.12-rc2, that's a special case -- I think we can happily delete the commits too. "We can delete old trees/commits easily, but we can't _add_ them to the existing linux-2.6.git tree, because the oldest commit in that tree (b4ceb6e27e4cc3f37d26e04c4535c79b98a9f889) doesn't have a parent." -- dwmw2