From: Hallvard Breien Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 19:36:40 GMT
Subject: Re: File versioning based on shallow Git repositories?
Message-ID: <4af21bcd-7a68-50df-4cce-0b050ccaeb90@usit.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <87d0z4b6ti.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

On 12. april 2018 20:47, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> 1. Create a backup.git repo
> 2. Each time you make a backup, checkout a new orphan branch, see "git
>     checkout --orphan"
> 3. You copy the files over, commit them, "git log" at this point shows
>     one commit no matter if you've done this before.
> 4. You create a tag for this backup, e.g. one named after the current
>     time, delete the branch.
> 5. You then have a retention period for the tags, e.g. only keep the
>     last 30 tags if you do daily backups for 30 days of backups.
> 
> Then as soon as you delete the tags the old commit will be unreferenced,
> and you can make git-gc delete the data.

Nice!
Why the tags though, instead of branches named after the current time?

One --orphan branch/tag per day with several commits would work for me.

Also maybe it'll be worthwhile to generate .git/info/grafts in a local
clone of the repo to get back easily visible history.  No grafts in
the original repo, grafts mess things up.

-- 
Hallvard