On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 5:52 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński matma.rex@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