From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 24 19:35:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ddg.com (eunuch.ddg.com [216.30.58.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1557437BC33 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 19:35:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rkw@dataplex.net) Received: from nomad.dataplex.net (24.28.73.209) by mail.ddg.com with SMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.1); Mon, 24 Apr 2000 20:59:48 -0500 From: Richard Wackerbarth To: Chuck Robey Subject: Re: Archive pruning Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 20:59:46 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.41] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00042420594601.09767@nomad.dataplex.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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? a) yes, we need the history. b) do we need it "online everywhere"? I think the answer is "no". However the sandbox engineers think differently. c) I've brought this up more than once. Do "they" care? ??? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message