From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 00:45:22 GMT
Subject: Re: full kernel history, in patchset format
Message-ID: <1113785123.11910.43.camel@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20050418003526.GD1461@pasky.ji.cz>

On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 02:35 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> > For the special case of removing history before 2.6.12-rc2 from the
> > trees, I certainly think we can do it by leaving out all the commits,
> > not just the trees. We can do that easily, but there's no way we can
> > _add_ that history retrospectively if we omit it in the first place.
> 
> I'm confused by this paragraph, but that might be my English skills
> failing somehow.

"For the general case of people pruning their own trees, _maybe_ you're
right that it would be good to keep the commits even if we delete the
actual trees. But for history older than 2.6.12-rc2, that's a special
case -- I think we can happily delete the commits too.

"We can delete old trees/commits easily, but we can't _add_ them to the
existing linux-2.6.git tree, because the oldest commit in that tree
(b4ceb6e27e4cc3f37d26e04c4535c79b98a9f889) doesn't have a parent."

-- 
dwmw2