From: Arafangion <thestar@fussycoder.id.au>
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:37:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Is there a way to control the number of revisions will be saved by git
Message-ID: <1228304226.23167.8.camel@therock.nsw.bigpond.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <2f5ea7490812030301p29e944fw5f59943dc352cd09@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 13:01 +0200, Tzury Bar Yochay wrote:
<snip>
> Say I wish to save only 100 generations back (per branch).
> Is it possible to configure git so it will save only N records back.

What would be the advantage in doing that?  Git is designed so that you
have all your history available, and saves data in such a way that it
really doesn't take much space.

How would git be able to perform a merge from one branch to another if
it didn't have this history available?

That said, you could probably chop off the history you don't want by
doing tricks with grafting, and rewriting all your history, but this
would likely use more disk space because your branches wouldn't have
anything in common, and also make it very difficult to merge in the
future.