On 21 March 2013 22:37, Anders Logg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 09:15:24PM +0000, Florian Rathgeber wrote: > >>> Those can be built (with a lot of effort) using the tarballs, and >>> the converted unchanged repository as well as the present bzr >>> repository will be stored for eternity on the web server. >> I'm not sure I understand what your plan for the clean-up is: I was >> assuming you want to take the opportunity to purge accidentally >> committed files, large binary files or generated files that should >> have never been committed in the first place etc. >> However all of this should not affect the ability to build old >> versions of FEniCS tools: I would advise against cleaning out old >> files which were legitimately committed at the time and simply became >> obsolete and were removed again later. Git is really good at >> compressing text files. > > The files I've put up for removal are meshes and generated code, some > of it quite large. > >>> 3. Get comments from Florian or anyone else interested in merging >>> in converted repos on the Git side. >> I'm hoping git-fast-filter [1] will do the trick. If not it'll require >> a bit of hackery. I'm not very worried about our FFC branch (I'm >> comfortable rebasing it on whatever final repository), but ideally I'd >> like to not slam the door in the faces of all those having feature >> branches lying around (Andre?). > > Can anyone with a feature branch comment on this issue? Will you want > to convert it to Git, then merge. Or are you happy to clone a fresh > branch on the Git side, then patch your changes manually? > >>> 4. Get comments from developers on the list of proposed files to >>> be deleted from the history. >> See my comments above: don't be too radical, only get rid of things >> that shouldn't have been there in the first place. > > Here's the list again for reference: > > https://gist.github.com/alogg/5213171#file-files_to_strip-txt > > The simple version is that the list contains the following: > > - .h if generated > - .xml.gz > - .inp > - .stl > - .data files > - the old manual with figures, tex, pdf > - some big autotools files
I have no problems with these files being removed, for the reference files in FFC I think Martin's solution sounds good. Kristian > -- > Anders > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~fenics > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~fenics > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~fenics Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~fenics More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
