From: "Edward Z. Yang" <edwardzyang@thewritingpot•com>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Cc: dpotapov@gmail•com, torvalds@linux-foundation•org, pdebie@ai•rug.nl
Subject: Re: Git, merging, and News/Relnotes files
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:14:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <487410F4.1050808@thewritingpot.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <37fcd2780807060753h26d9391crff5f9ba5531db654@mail.gmail.com>
Dmitry Potapov wrote:
> Having one file changed on almost every commit is not a good idea, and
> not only because it will cause unnecessary conflicts but also it may
> considerable increase the size of the whole repository. By default, the
> delta compression has limit 50, which means that every 50 change of file
> will become its full copy. If the changelog file is changed very often
> and it is long, it may turn out that changelog alone takes as much space
> as the rest of the source tree.
That is certainly a good technical point, and I will certainly look into
building a log parser after we wrap up our next release cycle.
P.S. Linus, we ended up manually merging the NEWS file; in some cases
there were branch specific changes in the file which would have been
completely inappropriate with a union merge. Thank you for the
suggestion, however.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-09 1:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-05 7:24 Git, merging, and News/Relnotes files Edward Z. Yang
2008-07-05 18:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-05 19:07 ` Edward Z. Yang
2008-07-05 20:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-06 14:53 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-07-09 1:14 ` Edward Z. Yang [this message]
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