Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 20:59:46 -0500 From: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Archive pruning Message-ID: <00042420594601.09767@nomad.dataplex.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004242011260.331-100000@picnic.mat.net> References: <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? a) yes, we need the history. b) do we need it "online everywhere"? I think the answer is "no". However the sandbox engineers think differently. c) I've brought this up more than once. Do "they" care? ??? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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