Re: Linux 3.0-rc1

Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-05-31T07:25:10Z

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 07:40, Mariusz Kozlowski <mk@lab.zgora.pl> wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 03:48:49PM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote:
>> >You could consider freezing linux-2.6.git repository and creating new
>> >linux-3.git repository that would serve for a couple of years until
>> >linux-4.git. At the same time development history could be dropped between
>> >trees so that inital clones are lighter. Anyone interested in history
>> >can download idx/pack from linux-2.6.git repo and attach it using gratf
>> >point[1] anyway.
>> >
>> >Pros:
>> >- obvious naming scheme wrt repository contents
>> >- smaller initial clone
>> >- new clean tag namespace
>> >
>> >Cons:
>> >- broken bisection for some time
>> >- impaired log/blame/whatchanged and friends
>>
>> in addition won't there be problems merging in work done on the old
>> tree? (since there would be no common history)
>
> Everyone would need to restart and probably reapply they changes on top
> of new tree (because of lack of common history).
>
>> everyone would need to re-clone their repository (and attaching
>> history wouldn't help this)
>>
>> there are probably others.
>>
>> frankly I don't see any real benifits from the Pros you list. the
>> initial clone is already rather small, it probably won't make that
>> big a difference to throw away several years of history.
>
> linux-2.6.git is all about lots of small changes so size isn't all that
> big today but there are quite many objects. Using grafts might help
> decreasing size of repository. I just mentioned it because it is a bit
> of a revolution time anyway and otherwise current tree will grow for next
> decade or so.

NAK. I regularly look into full-history-linux as linux-2.6.git doesn't
have enough
history for me. Please don't make it worse.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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