Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758053Ab1EaHZK (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2011 03:25:10 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:52951 "EHLO mail-bw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751324Ab1EaHZI convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2011 03:25:08 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=ZM4EWhI9LhDFSASdOzSSmvidflfoFILnPXZmbAKmfThu/FMu4bUOas8tmO+nGOa8j0 OwjIfeEUuu4EbTyXkPJ6z5H+cojxJKIFkfZZqqYWM91xqtea9KGAyuOiEvDIiHKt1/Fr ngM/k4z+M5EaTYthXLKbfdTu7DNqkZ2QpiqAU= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110531054008.GA1906@mako-laptop> References: <20110530200329.GA1833@mako-laptop> <20110531054008.GA1906@mako-laptop> Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 09:25:06 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: L9IglTwFRo17HRHi3BQ7X_gC8LI Message-ID: Subject: Re: Linux 3.0-rc1 From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Mariusz Kozlowski Cc: david@lang.hm, Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2403 Lines: 58 On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 07:40, Mariusz Kozlowski wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 03:48:49PM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote: >> >You could consider freezing linux-2.6.git repository and creating new >> >linux-3.git repository that would serve for a couple of years until >> >linux-4.git. At the same time development history could be dropped between >> >trees so that inital clones are lighter. Anyone interested in history >> >can download idx/pack from linux-2.6.git repo and attach it using gratf >> >point[1] anyway. >> > >> >Pros: >> >- obvious naming scheme wrt repository contents >> >- smaller initial clone >> >- new clean tag namespace >> > >> >Cons: >> >- broken bisection for some time >> >- impaired log/blame/whatchanged and friends >> >> in addition won't there be problems merging in work done on the old >> tree? (since there would be no common history) > > Everyone would need to restart and probably reapply they changes on top > of new tree (because of lack of common history). > >> everyone would need to re-clone their repository (and attaching >> history wouldn't help this) >> >> there are probably others. >> >> frankly I don't see any real benifits from the Pros you list. the >> initial clone is already rather small, it probably won't make that >> big a difference to throw away several years of history. > > linux-2.6.git is all about lots of small changes so size isn't all that > big today but there are quite many objects. Using grafts might help > decreasing size of repository. I just mentioned it because it is a bit > of a revolution time anyway and otherwise current tree will grow for next > decade or so. NAK. I regularly look into full-history-linux as linux-2.6.git doesn't have enough history for me. Please don't make it worse. Gr{oetje,eeting}s,                         Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.                                 -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/