On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 1:05 AM, Antoine Musso <[email protected]> wrote:
> Le 31/05/2014 04:25, Chad a écrit : > > When we end up moving MW core to Phabricator I'd like us to jettison our > > history. The > > repo is large and clunky and not conducive to development. It's only > going > > to grow in > > size unless we do something to cut back on the junk we're carrying > around. > > Hello, > > My repacked copy of core is 270MB which is not that huge and I really > like having the whole history for bisecting and blaming code. > > 270MB is gigantic for a git repo. > > What about attempting to slowdown the rate of growth? The i18n messages > can probably be split to another repository or at least be updated only > once in a while instead of on a daily basis. > > A solution for containing the growth, yes. I'd +1 this along with Daniel F's idea earlier. > We might also have some big objects floating around in the repo which we > could potentially drop from the repo. IIRC we had a few .jar committed > by mistake in SVN, though we dropped them when migrating to git. There > is probably some other big objects we could remove. > How would we do that without rewriting history? Same problem. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
