> Do we really need 5 year old history?
That really depends on your point of view.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
-- Santayana
"The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."
-- Hegel
I am with Hegel in the very long term but what is the rush
about pruning? Set a cron job to ask this in the year 2037!
In the short term it is valuable to trace back the genesis of
various features/bugs. With cvs annotate you can even find
out who put in a feature or bug and bug that person about it
(as I was just this past week about something I had written
over four years back). The networking code is so convoluted
that having all the history (which we don't) can be very
valuable in unravelling all the development strands.
-- bakul
PS: Of course, having a complete history is not the same as
reading and remembering it all but at least you have a
chance....
What is missing is a tool that to easily browse through old
revisions (tkdiff is nice but not enough). If such a tool
were available there would be many source code historians!
PPS: We should have a complete history *somewhere*. You are
of course free to extend cvsup to prune so that *you* don't
have to keep it all.
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