From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ryan Anderson Subject: Re: [QUESTION] about .git/info/grafts file Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:48:51 -0500 Message-ID: <20060120204851.GB19212@mythryan2.michonline.com> References: <7v8xtdrqwg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <43CF739F.2030204@op5.se> <43CF97AF.9060300@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jan 20 21:50:45 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F03CW-0002yE-3h for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:49:40 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932178AbWATUth (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:49:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932183AbWATUth (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:49:37 -0500 Received: from mail.autoweb.net ([198.172.237.26]:44722 "EHLO mail.internal.autoweb.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932178AbWATUtg (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:49:36 -0500 Received: from pcp01184054pcs.strl301.mi.comcast.net ([68.60.186.73] helo=h4x0r5.com) by mail.internal.autoweb.net with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1F03CP-0006kG-H1; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:49:35 -0500 Received: from mythical ([10.254.251.11] ident=Debian-exim) by h4x0r5.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1F03CO-0002DE-BT; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:49:33 -0500 Received: from ryan by mythical with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1F03C3-00084Q-Sb; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:49:11 -0500 To: Andreas Ericsson Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43CF97AF.9060300@op5.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 02:44:15PM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > > The full kernel tree, with history since 1991 or some such, is about 3.2 > GB. It was for this reason that the early history was dropped. I don't > think another drop will be necessary any time soon, since incremental > updates are fairly cheap over git and git+ssh. Only gitk suffers, but > that's just for a short while. Just to make sure this is corrected, the 3.2GB was for a fully unpacked tree, which is still fairly bad in the current tree. The historical tree, packed, runs about 266M in a single pack. Admittedly, I still refuse to try to run gitk on it. > >But I'm not saying that it's bad thing to keep > >that history. It just would be nice to allow developpers that don't > >care about old history to get rid of it. > > You could ofcourse create a new repository with the files from the > version you want, but then you'd have a hard time merging the two repos > if you ever want to import the old history. It's always possible to use a "graft" to tie the history together, and if you really need to merge changes across the boundary, my graft-ripple (in the archives) tool can make it happen, though it does some ... nasty things to the history tree in the process. (It might be useful on a throwaway tree to provide a way to merge, then, from which a set of diffs could be taken and applied back on an un-messy tree.) -- Ryan Anderson sometimes Pug Majere