I don't see the size as a problem anymore now that it turns out we can keep the whole history in under 1GB.
Git Replace does sound nice, so we should also provide a non-authoritative repository with a minimal history for casual or bandwidth limited contributors. --emi On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 5:36 PM, Tushar Joshi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Git Replace [1] provides way to keep small initial history and to separate > the old history to another repository. When needed that history can be > seamlessly be accessed using the git replace technique. > > Can we think of creating a lightweight version of our repository for later > development by keeping the original history in some history repository as > mentioned in the link? > > > [1] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Replace > > with regards > Tushar >
