Re: Historical kernel repository size

From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Sep 14, 2006, 15:52 UTC
Message-ID: <20060914155212.GC9657@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <45097775.4040005@shadowen.org>

Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> wrote:

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> tglx@linutronix.de wrote:
> > Petr,
> > 
> >>   just to test the packing improvements we had achieved over the last
> >> year, I have repacked the historical kernel repository and achieved a
> >> significant improvement:
> >> ....
> >>   Since it's a nice place for people to check about how efficient we are
> >> with compressing the repository, perhaps it would be a good idea to
> >> repack the historical repository on kernel.org?
> > 
> > I'll do once I'm back home.
> 
> Is there any reason this isn't a live history.  ie that we don't
> constantly pull linus' master branch into this history to make it a real
> complete history?
> 
> Perhaps that isn't possible ... hmmm.  I guess it might only work if
> linus' repo was actually a grafted version of this history?

Right - the only way to join the two is to graft them together.

Since grafts are a purely local matter anyone can pull both into the same repository and insert the correct grafts to get a complete history. You would just want to publish on the kernel.org website the correct grafts file, so users don't have to figure it out on their own.

Since I'm not a kernel developer I haven't even looked to see if such a grafts file has been published. :-)

-- 
Shawn.