I've cleaned up some merged branches. On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Rok Garbas <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > However, we could rename dead branches to something like attic/<name>. > > > > Yes, that's sounds better than what we have now. Alternatively, we > > could make a "historic" repo clone (like Nathan Bijnens suggests). > > nixpkgs-historic? Then we have an option to clean up some less used > > branches/tags in the mainline repo. > > > > +1 on the "historic" (or "archive") clone where we would keep all history. > > this is usually normal way when working with any git/hg projects repos when > they grow to "big" (to big in size of history) and its taking long time to > do > the initial clone. usually when developing a project you're only > interested in > last year or two of history at most. > > it is not that this must be done, but it would definetly not hurt anybody. > history is not lost and main development repo becomes "lighter" to work > with. > > > -- > Rok Garbas - http://www.garbas.si > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > >
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