From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Unresolved issues #2 Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 10:32:22 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <7v64lcqz9j.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7v4q065hq0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 04 10:31:50 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 1FbZFL-0001pt-HN for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 10:31:39 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751441AbWEDIb3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 May 2006 04:31:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751443AbWEDIb3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 May 2006 04:31:29 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:13767 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751441AbWEDIb2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 May 2006 04:31:28 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FbZF7-0001n7-P8 for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 04 May 2006 10:31:25 +0200 Received: from 193.0.122.19 ([193.0.122.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 May 2006 10:31:25 +0200 Received: from jnareb by 193.0.122.19 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 May 2006 10:31:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.0.122.19 User-Agent: KNode/0.7.7 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > * #irc 2006-04-10 > Shallow clones (Carl Worth). > > The experiment last round did not work out very well, but as > existing repositories get bigger, and more projects being > migrated from foreign SCM systems, this would become a > must-have from would-be-nice-to-have. > > I am beginning to think using "graft" to cauterize history > for this, while it technically would work, would not be so > helpful to users, so the design needs to be worked out again. Perhaps use comment for marking graft as cauterizing history? There was also talk about proposed git-splithist, which would move some of the history to other (historical, archive) repository. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland