From: Martin Langhoff Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:40:23 GMT Subject: Splitting off old history to ancillary repo Message-ID: <46a038f90808271940w3aaf5c4ek6329e8066724c778@mail.gmail.com> A project I've inherited has a codebase ~500KB in size. However, in early history some large binary blobs were committed to the repo. We've gotten rid of those, and they are not interesting to current development. But an initial checkout still has to retrieve 60MiB, when I'm sure the recent (and interesting) history fits in less than 1MB. What is the state of grafts from a "keeping the repo mostly transparently usable for newcomers" POV? Is there a new mechanims I should look at? Do we have a documented "here's how you split your repo with minimal downsides to end users"? If you give me enough hints I could write it :-) The repo in question is http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/xs-config;a=summary cheers, m -- martin.langhoff@gmail.com martin@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff