From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shawn Pearce Subject: Re: Historical kernel repository size Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:52:12 -0400 Message-ID: <20060914155212.GC9657@spearce.org> References: <20060914142249.GK23891@pasky.or.cz> <46900.194.138.39.52.1158244729.squirrel@www.tglx.de> <45097775.4040005@shadowen.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, Petr Baudis , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Sep 14 17:53:20 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 1GNtWD-0005os-IG for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:52:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750898AbWINPwW (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:52:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750901AbWINPwW (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:52:22 -0400 Received: from corvette.plexpod.net ([64.38.20.226]:37782 "EHLO corvette.plexpod.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750896AbWINPwU (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:52:20 -0400 Received: from cpe-74-70-48-173.nycap.res.rr.com ([74.70.48.173] helo=asimov.home.spearce.org) by corvette.plexpod.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1GNtVY-0006FD-Cc; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:52:08 -0400 Received: by asimov.home.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A4E7020FB1F; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:52:12 -0400 (EDT) To: Andy Whitcroft Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45097775.4040005@shadowen.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - corvette.plexpod.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - spearce.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Andy Whitcroft wrote: > tglx@linutronix.de wrote: > > Petr, > > > >> just to test the packing improvements we had achieved over the last > >> year, I have repacked the historical kernel repository and achieved a > >> significant improvement: > >> .... > >> Since it's a nice place for people to check about how efficient we are > >> with compressing the repository, perhaps it would be a good idea to > >> repack the historical repository on kernel.org? > > > > I'll do once I'm back home. > > Is there any reason this isn't a live history. ie that we don't > constantly pull linus' master branch into this history to make it a real > complete history? > > Perhaps that isn't possible ... hmmm. I guess it might only work if > linus' repo was actually a grafted version of this history? Right - the only way to join the two is to graft them together. Since grafts are a purely local matter anyone can pull both into the same repository and insert the correct grafts to get a complete history. You would just want to publish on the kernel.org website the correct grafts file, so users don't have to figure it out on their own. Since I'm not a kernel developer I haven't even looked to see if such a grafts file has been published. :-) -- Shawn.