On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Tim Landscheidt tim@tim-landscheidt.de wrote:
(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.
[...]
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?
Right. That's less of a cloning problem as it's a problem on the remote and slows down operations on *that* repo.
-Chad