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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?

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