From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 24 20:21:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from chai.torrentnet.com (chai.torrentnet.com [198.78.51.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3F0637B509 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 20:21:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bakul@torrentnet.com) Received: from chai.torrentnet.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chai.torrentnet.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA29758; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 23:21:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200004250321.XAA29758@chai.torrentnet.com> To: Chuck Robey Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Archive pruning In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 24 Apr 2000 20:15:45 EDT." Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 23:21:11 -0400 From: Bakul Shah Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Do we really need 5 year old history? That really depends on your point of view. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" -- Santayana "The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history." -- Hegel I am with Hegel in the very long term but what is the rush about pruning? Set a cron job to ask this in the year 2037! In the short term it is valuable to trace back the genesis of various features/bugs. With cvs annotate you can even find out who put in a feature or bug and bug that person about it (as I was just this past week about something I had written over four years back). The networking code is so convoluted that having all the history (which we don't) can be very valuable in unravelling all the development strands. -- bakul PS: Of course, having a complete history is not the same as reading and remembering it all but at least you have a chance.... What is missing is a tool that to easily browse through old revisions (tkdiff is nice but not enough). If such a tool were available there would be many source code historians! PPS: We should have a complete history *somewhere*. You are of course free to extend cvsup to prune so that *you* don't have to keep it all. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message