Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 19:46:00 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Archive pruning Message-ID: <20000424194600.A14712@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004242011260.331-100000@picnic.mat.net>; from chuckr@picnic.mat.net on Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 08:15:45PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004242011260.331-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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* Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> [000424 19:15] 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. However, I would really like to see a pruned REPO available that carried perhaps the last 3 years of history, perhaps one running off the freebsd cluster. If it became popular enough several of the cvsup mirrors could adopt it. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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