Re: VCS comparison table

On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 08:39:56PM CEST, Sean wrote:

On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 20:23:03 +0200
Petr Baudis [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

(BTW, yes, grafting the old history could help this time, but it is a
hack and not a good long-term solution - it is just putting the real
solution away until the project history will re-grew. Periodical
regrafting is even worse hack, since at that moment you break
fast-forwarding and this kind of "restarting the history" breaks deep
into the Git distributiveness.)

But is there a better practical solution he can use today?  I don't think
there is.  And the experience of the Linux kernel has shown that it's not
really all that big a problem.  You even made a nice script to help people
do it! ;o)

It's probably not the solution that should be used _next_ time the repository
grows too big, but it sure seems like the correct solution this time around.
Not many people will want all that old history anyway (10+ years as i recall?).

Well I'm not saying it's the incorrect solution today, only that we
won't get around the problem by suggesting grafting forever. :-)

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