Repository Reorganization Question

[Johan Tibell]

Hi,

When we merge in the testsuite repo, can we still keep the old commit IDs?
They're referenced from all over the place.


On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Joachim Breitner
<mail at joachim-breitner.de>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Am Freitag, den 06.12.2013, 11:05 +0100 schrieb Herbert Valerio Riedel:
> > PS: if anyone wonders why the testsuite.git history is so large: there
> > were a few *huge* binary files with bad compressibility checked in by
> > accident, such as the one removed via
> >
> >[..]
> >
> > s/dph/words/dph-words-fast             | Bin 17580076 -> 0 bytes
> >
> > which account for most of the ~20MiB history....
>
> so if we were to do the marge including a pathname rewrite (which I tend
> to think of as fine), we could remove these files from the history as
> well, and get a reasonably sized repository?
>
> Greetings,
> Joachim
>
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