From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 24 19:16: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from tinker.exit.com (exit-gw.power.net [207.151.46.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC52337B71A for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 19:15:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from realtime.exit.com (realtime.exit.com [206.223.0.5]) by tinker.exit.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA84763; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 19:11:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: (from frank@localhost) by realtime.exit.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA01087; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 19:11:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank) From: Frank Mayhar Message-Id: <200004250211.TAA01087@realtime.exit.com> Subject: Re: Archive pruning In-Reply-To: from Chuck Robey at "Apr 24, 2000 08:15:45 pm" To: Chuck Robey Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 19:11:31 -0700 (PDT) Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: frank@exit.com Organization: Exit Consulting X-Copyright0: Copyright 2000 Frank Mayhar. All Rights Reserved. X-Copyright1: Permission granted for electronic reproduction as Usenet News or email only. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Okay: "so." :-) > Do we really need 5 year old history? Well, unfortunately (and I speak from painful experience), yes. You never know what history is going to be needed to understand _this_ particular change introduced in _this_ six-year-old revision in code that hasn't been touched since, and that either needs to be changed to fit a new way of doing things or that has a bug in a path that has apparently never been taken, ever before. Hell, some of _my_ code (in my current project) is six years old, and I have only a dim memory of having written it, much less why I wrote it that way in the first place. (Somewhere floating around at a certain university is code I wrote long ago that would be approaching drinking age were it a human being. _It_ probably needs history, too, and doesn't have it. Fortunately, that's Not My Problem. :-) The more history, unfortunately for the disk space needs of all of us keeping copies of the repository, the better. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message