On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 09:15:24PM +0000, Florian Rathgeber wrote: >> Those can be built (with a lot of effort) using the tarballs, and >> the converted unchanged repository as well as the present bzr >> repository will be stored for eternity on the web server. > I'm not sure I understand what your plan for the clean-up is: I was > assuming you want to take the opportunity to purge accidentally > committed files, large binary files or generated files that should > have never been committed in the first place etc. > However all of this should not affect the ability to build old > versions of FEniCS tools: I would advise against cleaning out old > files which were legitimately committed at the time and simply became > obsolete and were removed again later. Git is really good at > compressing text files.
The files I've put up for removal are meshes and generated code, some of it quite large. >> 3. Get comments from Florian or anyone else interested in merging >> in converted repos on the Git side. > I'm hoping git-fast-filter [1] will do the trick. If not it'll require > a bit of hackery. I'm not very worried about our FFC branch (I'm > comfortable rebasing it on whatever final repository), but ideally I'd > like to not slam the door in the faces of all those having feature > branches lying around (Andre?). Can anyone with a feature branch comment on this issue? Will you want to convert it to Git, then merge. Or are you happy to clone a fresh branch on the Git side, then patch your changes manually? >> 4. Get comments from developers on the list of proposed files to >> be deleted from the history. > See my comments above: don't be too radical, only get rid of things > that shouldn't have been there in the first place. Here's the list again for reference: https://gist.github.com/alogg/5213171#file-files_to_strip-txt The simple version is that the list contains the following: - .h if generated - .xml.gz - .inp - .stl - .data files - the old manual with figures, tex, pdf - some big autotools files -- Anders _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~fenics Post to : fenics@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~fenics More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
