On 8/26/06, Marco Costalba <mcostalba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Actually Linux git archive _is_ a special, odd-ball case. It's also our main customer ;-)
More seriously, do you foreseen reasons for an SCM to split old histories (more then, say few years and some GB ago) in a separated repository? Now in Linux we have the historical repo and is splitted because it was borne splitted, but do you think this could be also an acceptable policy for a big project after years of git use: to backup old stuff and keep recent one snappy? With snappy I mean a long list of things: cloning, getting file histories / blaming, packing, fsck-ing, etc... The net effect could be a better browsing/handling experience in the 99% of cases where you need to check recent work (say last 2 years) and in any case the possibility to do some archeologic research when needed. Marco - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html