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
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