Subject: Re: Unresolved issues #2

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 10:32:22 +0200

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> * #irc 2006-04-10
>   Shallow clones (Carl Worth).
> 
>   The experiment last round did not work out very well, but as
>   existing repositories get bigger, and more projects being
>   migrated from foreign SCM systems, this would become a
>   must-have from would-be-nice-to-have.
> 
>   I am beginning to think using "graft" to cauterize history
>   for this, while it technically would work, would not be so
>   helpful to users, so the design needs to be worked out again.

Perhaps use comment for marking graft as cauterizing history?

There was also talk about proposed git-splithist, which would move some of
the history to other (historical, archive) repository.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland