Re: Unresolved issues #2

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: May 4, 2006, 08:32 UTC
Message-ID: <e3ce4j$chl$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v4q065hq0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> * #irc 2006-04-10
>   Shallow clones (Carl Worth).
> 
>   The experiment last round did not work out very well, but as
>   existing repositories get bigger, and more projects being
>   migrated from foreign SCM systems, this would become a
>   must-have from would-be-nice-to-have.
> 
>   I am beginning to think using "graft" to cauterize history
>   for this, while it technically would work, would not be so
>   helpful to users, so the design needs to be worked out again.

Perhaps use comment for marking graft as cauterizing history?

There was also talk about proposed git-splithist, which would move some of the history to other (historical, archive) repository.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland

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