Re: gc/repack has no option to lose grafted parents

[Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Given that we in general frown upon long-term use of grafts (or
> "replace" for that matter), I am not sure if we want to go in that
> direction.
>
> Just a knee-jerk reaction, though.

Fair enough.

If I state my actual goals -- discarding old, uninteresting history,
in a "rolling" fashion? (periodically using a script that says "forget
anything older than one month") -- is there a better way?

The repository is not standalone, it receives pushes from hundreds of
clients, and gets pulled from a couple of clients. All clients are "in
sync", in that will be pulling every hour (vs a "time window" of one
month).

At this stage, and with careful management (ie: custom gc scripts) git
makes for an excellent async log/report transfer tool. We specially
appreciate that it has "deep buffer".

cheers,



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