From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 24 19:53:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mgw-x1.nokia.com (mgw-x1.nokia.com [131.228.20.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0929537BD8F for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 19:53:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (mvdhcp141236.americas.nokia.com [172.18.141.236]) by mgw-x1.nokia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA07024; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 05:53:29 +0300 (EETDST) X-Authentication-Warning: mgw-x1.nokia.com: Host mvdhcp141236.americas.nokia.com [172.18.141.236] claimed to be nomad.yogotech.com Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA09084; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 20:53:26 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 20:53:26 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200004250253.UAA09084@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Chuck Robey Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Archive pruning In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. I'm violently opposed to removing it completely. The only thing I wouldn't be violently opposed to would be removing 'Attic' files (truly unused file), and having them stored away somewhere in the tree for archival purposes. As far as removing old revisions from files, I'm even more violently opposed to this. > 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. I quite often browse the source code in the tree, in particular I look through the network code at how it's been modified over the years. Also, I often-times go through the history. > Do we really need 5 year old history? Need? As far as needs go, we don't need anything but the most recent versions. This is how Linux was developed for years, and it's a nightmare. The revisions take up very little space, and anyone capable and willing to look through the history shouldn't mind having to see the history of the file. Heck, that's one of the big upsides to using source-code control. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message