From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: gc/repack has no option to lose grafted parents
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 07:47:29 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8BrnKPu=Uf5Qy1KoccorBJ43yo+R9P3PyVAeNU9FuCy6Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACPiFCLgoGP59sW73YFCt8Wq4hpxZUb0PBF-DzHz0JdxrYo4rw@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 6:36 AM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
Convert it to a shallow repository? Either you clone it and do "fetch
--depth=XXX && prune", or you manipulate $GIT_DIR/shallow directly
then prune (no worse than editing grafts, I think).
--
Duy
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-07 0:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-06 23:07 gc/repack has no option to lose grafted parents Martin Langhoff
2014-03-06 23:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-06 23:36 ` Martin Langhoff
2014-03-07 0:47 ` Duy Nguyen [this message]
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