On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 5:52 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński <matma....@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't like this idea, for the same reasons that other have already > given. Grafting histories with git-replace might be viable, but it'd still > be clunky and non-intuitive. > > Ok, fair enough. Everyone's made some really good points so let's drop the idea of dropping our history. However I think we should continue to discuss ways to contain the repo size going forward. That, combined with some aggressive repacking and dropping of refs/changes/* (when we move to Phabricator) should help get it under control. > Why don't we just suggest that people use shallow clones? Git supports > pushing from and pulling to them since 1.9, and while Gerrit doesn't accept > pushes from them (or at least it didn't when I just tried), I see no reason > why Phabricator would have any issues if it only works on diffs anyway, not > commits. This is also a good idea. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
