On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 12:08:22PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > All these commits before v0.16 could be archived. And the “new” > > repository would start at this 4a0b87f0ec5b6c2dcf82b372dd20ca7ea6acdd9c. > > > > This would save some resource that are downloaded for nothing at the > > first “guix pull”. > > > > Well, for some files, ’git blame’ and ’git log’ would be “broken” but if > > I count the number of times that I dug the history before 2019, it would > > not be an issue for me to use another archived / separated repository. > > Maybe I misunderstand, but can that be done without rewriting history, > which would break the chain of signed commits? That would seem like a > great time to introduce malicious code...
Let's break this into a different proposal, and look into shallow cloning. I don't think there is anything exceptional about or repo that makes this urgent.
