From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:38:29 GMT
Subject: Re: Historical kernel repository size
Message-ID: <45097775.4040005@shadowen.org>
In-Reply-To: <46900.194.138.39.52.1158244729.squirrel@www.tglx.de>

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?

/me watches his head explode.

-apw