From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Whitcroft Subject: Re: Historical kernel repository size Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:38:29 +0100 Message-ID: <45097775.4040005@shadowen.org> References: <20060914142249.GK23891@pasky.or.cz> <46900.194.138.39.52.1158244729.squirrel@www.tglx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Petr Baudis , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Sep 14 17:39:45 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 1GNtJA-0002Yp-RR for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:39:21 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750841AbWINPjK (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:39:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750851AbWINPjK (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:39:10 -0400 Received: from hellhawk.shadowen.org ([80.68.90.175]:5643 "EHLO hellhawk.shadowen.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750849AbWINPjJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:39:09 -0400 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by hellhawk.shadowen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GNtIM-0000du-Ua; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:38:31 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060812) To: tglx@linutronix.de In-Reply-To: <46900.194.138.39.52.1158244729.squirrel@www.tglx.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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