From: Shawn Pearce Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:52:12 GMT Subject: Re: Historical kernel repository size Message-ID: <20060914155212.GC9657@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <45097775.4040005@shadowen.org> Andy Whitcroft wrote: > 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.