linux-kernel - Re: RFC: Removing old tags, reducing the git size of -next.

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Date:	Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:29:29 +0100
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	linux-next <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, users@...nel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Removing old tags, reducing the git size of -next.

On 2.3.2011 06:54, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> 
> On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:22:26 -0800 Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
>>
>> I personally do not find git history to be very useful
>> for the next tree.  The collected next tree history
>> also makes the repository fairly large and unwieldy to
>> use on smaller development systems.
> 
> Yeah, I have been thinking about this again recently.
> 
>> Would it be reasonable to create a separate history tree
>> for -next every once in awhile and have say a maximum of
>> a few weeks of next history in the current tree?
> 
> I could easily have a tree that is historical and contains what the
> current linux-next tree contains while also removing old stuff from the
> normal linux-next tree (I could push into both each day).  The only
> connection between the daily releases is the "history" branch which,
> frankly, does not serve any purpose and I will remove.

FWIW, I use the following setup for linux-next:

[remote "linux-next"]
        url =
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git
        fetch = +refs/heads/master:refs/heads/linux-next
        fetch = +refs/heads/stable:refs/remotes/linux-next/stable
        tagopt = --no-tags

and fetch the next-* tags manually only when I need them.

Michal
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