Re: full kernel history, in patchset format

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Apr 18, 2005, 00:50 UTC
Message-ID: <20050418005032.GE1461@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <1113785123.11910.43.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Dear diary, on Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 02:45:22AM CEST, I got a letter where David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> told me that...

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> 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.

Ah _so_. Thanks for explanation.

I think I will make git-pasky's default behaviour (when we get http-pull, that is) to keep the complete commit history but only trees you need/want; togglable to both sides.

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