From: Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 04:08:46 GMT
Subject: Re: Cutting history
Message-ID: <4C37F24E.30407@workspacewhiz.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100710032553.GB554@nibiru.local>

  ----- Original Message -----
From: Enrico Weigelt
Date: 7/9/2010 9:25 PM
> I'm using git for automatic backups (eg. database dumps). This
> works quite well, but as time goes, the history (and so the repo)
> gets larger and larger. It would be really nice to allow cutting
> off old stuff (eg. after N commits in the past).
>
> Maybe that could be done by introducing "stopper" tags: commits
> that have an stopper-tag may have missing parents, and git-gc
> can be told to ignore those parents and throw away everything
> behind the stopper (if not referenced otherwise).
>
> A probably cleaner, but more invasive way could be making refs
> to vectors, which may contain stop points (multiple ones in case
> of merges) additionally to the start point. Remote transmits only
> contain the commits within this range, and GC also just scans
> the range (instead of following all parents).
Your post reminded me of this: http://progit.org/2010/03/17/replace.html

Josh