From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 24 18:51:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2611B37BC5C for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 18:51:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA06192; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 18:46:50 -0700 Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 18:47:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Chuck Robey Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Archive pruning In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Chuck Robey wrote: > I want to bring up a suggestion. I just want a little bit of argument on > it ... and if you're violently opposed, just say so, that's fine. > > I want to suggest that, once a year, we go thru the cvs archive, and prune > away all history more than 3 (or maybe 2, maybe 4) years old. This could > be done without too much pain, I think, in a script. The purpose is to > put some kind of cap on growth of the FreeBSD source archive. While folks > do sometimes go hunting for hugely old materials in the tree, I normally > couldn't care less (when browsing) about history that old. > > Do we really need 5 year old history? Yes, to avoid Santayana's curse. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message