Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 18:47:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Archive pruning Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10004241847160.87772-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004242011260.331-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Chuck Robey wrote: > I want to bring up a suggestion. I just want a little bit of argument on > it ... and if you're violently opposed, just say so, that's fine. > > I want to suggest that, once a year, we go thru the cvs archive, and prune > away all history more than 3 (or maybe 2, maybe 4) years old. This could > be done without too much pain, I think, in a script. The purpose is to > put some kind of cap on growth of the FreeBSD source archive. While folks > do sometimes go hunting for hugely old materials in the tree, I normally > couldn't care less (when browsing) about history that old. > > Do we really need 5 year old history? Yes, to avoid Santayana's curse. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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