Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 19:25:55 -0700 From: Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r359168 - head Message-ID: <BC29E97D-D309-4FB3-A63F-CB390AA9BFA8@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <69a9072f-6592-4eb5-8e63-92255adee0d9@www.fastmail.com> References: <202003201602.02KG2kKW065294@repo.freebsd.org> <20200324214552.GD1292@FreeBSD.org> <69a9072f-6592-4eb5-8e63-92255adee0d9@www.fastmail.com>
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> On Mar 24, 2020, at 3:57 PM, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2020, at 3:45 PM, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 04:02:46PM +0000, Ed Maste wrote: >> E> Author: emaste >> E> Date: Fri Mar 20 16:02:45 2020 >> E> New Revision: 359168 >> E> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/359168 >> E> >> E> Log: >> E> remove ancient pre-2000 ObsoleteFiles.inc entries >> E> >> E> We support 10.3 as the minimum version to install from, which was >> E> released in the mid-2010s. There's a lot of ancient ObsoleteFiles.inc >> E> history that serves no purpose today; start by removing entries from >> E> 1999 and earlier. >> >> I understand that rationale is to speedup 'make delete-old' times, and >> trimming the default file definitely makes sense. However, what about >> keeping the full ObsoleteFiles.inc version, at least for documenting >> purposes? >> > > This is what SCM history is for, IMHO. The historical entries serve little > purpose outside of that. Moreover, splitting them up into separate files will make merges more difficult than they need to be/already are. Cheers, -Enjihome | help
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