From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
To: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Historical kernel repository size
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:38:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45097775.4040005@shadowen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46900.194.138.39.52.1158244729.squirrel@www.tglx.de>
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?
/me watches his head explode.
-apw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-14 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-14 14:22 Historical kernel repository size Petr Baudis
2006-09-14 14:38 ` tglx
2006-09-14 15:38 ` Andy Whitcroft [this message]
2006-09-14 15:52 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-14 15:52 ` Petr Baudis
2006-09-14 15:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-14 21:23 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-09-14 21:32 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-09-14 21:37 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-09-14 21:42 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-09-14 21:54 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-09-14 22:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-09-14 23:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-15 1:19 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-09-15 9:03 ` Olivier Galibert
2006-09-15 16:45 ` Nicolas Pitre
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