(anonymous) 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.
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Just to clarify: refs/changes/* = Gerrit patchsets (minus the ones referenced as submitted changes)? If so, sure, they're only scratchpads, but on the other hand they should- n't affect the size of a default clone that just pulls in the parents of master's HEAD?
Tim