Hi Joe, On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:22:52 -0800 Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In order to keep the next git repository size down, > are you going to continue to expire and delete older > next-<date> tags after some number of months/days/weeks? > > I think it'd be sensible to keep a maximum of 2 months > of tags and once a month expire out the oldest tags > followed by a repack. Currently, there should be 90 tags in the linux-next tree. This should easily cover a whole release cycle (and a bit extra). Each day, I remove the oldest one. Apparently "git gc" is run automatically on kernel.org every so often. I don;t think that the "git gc" should affect how much is downloaded (very much), though. Also, if you fetch the tree, you should only get the latest version as I also removed the "history" branch that was stiching all the tags together. So to get an older tag, you need to explicitly fetch it (or use --tags on the fetch - unless you mirror the tree, in which case you will get the whole lot). If you fetch each day, you should only be downloading a few MB ... The linux-next history tree has all the tags just in case anyone wants an older one. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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