* Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000424 19:15] wrote:
> I want to bring up a suggestion.  I just want a little bit of argument on
> it ... and if you're violently opposed, just say so, that's fine.
> 
> I want to suggest that, once a year, we go thru the cvs archive, and prune
> away all history more than 3 (or maybe 2, maybe 4) years old.  This could
> be done without too much pain, I think, in a script.  The purpose is to
> put some kind of cap on growth of the FreeBSD source archive.  While folks
> do sometimes go hunting for hugely old materials in the tree, I normally
> couldn't care less (when browsing) about history that old.
> 
> Do we really need 5 year old history?

Yes.

However, I would really like to see a pruned REPO available that
carried perhaps the last 3 years of history, perhaps one running
off the freebsd cluster.   If it became popular enough several of
the cvsup mirrors could adopt it.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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