From: Marco Costalba Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 05:43:04 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/19] gitweb: Remove creating directory for temporary files Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On 8/26/06, Marco Costalba wrote: > > Actually Linux git archive _is_ a special, odd-ball case. > > It's also our main customer ;-) > More seriously, do you foreseen reasons for an SCM to split old histories (more then, say few years and some GB ago) in a separated repository? Now in Linux we have the historical repo and is splitted because it was borne splitted, but do you think this could be also an acceptable policy for a big project after years of git use: to backup old stuff and keep recent one snappy? With snappy I mean a long list of things: cloning, getting file histories / blaming, packing, fsck-ing, etc... The net effect could be a better browsing/handling experience in the 99% of cases where you need to check recent work (say last 2 years) and in any case the possibility to do some archeologic research when needed. Marco