Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 19:11:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Archive pruning Message-ID: <200004250211.TAA01087@realtime.exit.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004242011260.331-100000@picnic.mat.net> from Chuck Robey at "Apr 24, 2000 08:15:45 pm"
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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. Okay: "so." :-) > Do we really need 5 year old history? Well, unfortunately (and I speak from painful experience), yes. You never know what history is going to be needed to understand _this_ particular change introduced in _this_ six-year-old revision in code that hasn't been touched since, and that either needs to be changed to fit a new way of doing things or that has a bug in a path that has apparently never been taken, ever before. Hell, some of _my_ code (in my current project) is six years old, and I have only a dim memory of having written it, much less why I wrote it that way in the first place. (Somewhere floating around at a certain university is code I wrote long ago that would be approaching drinking age were it a human being. _It_ probably needs history, too, and doesn't have it. Fortunately, that's Not My Problem. :-) The more history, unfortunately for the disk space needs of all of us keeping copies of the repository, the better. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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