Repository Reorganization Question

[Carter Schonwald]

personally i don't care about the bandwidth, and others are correct about
the value of logs. If theres a way to get both, awesome!  If not, 20mb here
and there i don't care.


On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr at gnu.org>wrote:
>
>> On 2013-12-06 at 13:50:55 +0100, Johan Tibell wrote:
>> > Whichever way to go, we should write down the options and consequences
>> and
>> > communicating them widely enough so no core devs get surprised.
>> >
>> > Commit IDs for the test suite are referenced in e.g. various Trac
>> issues,
>> > on mailing lists (although rarely), and perhaps even in code.
>>
>> ...as I hinted at in an earlier post, the old commit-ids will still
>> allow to find the original commit; for isntance, there's already the
>> find-commit-by-sha1 service at
>>
>>   http://git.haskell.org/.findhash/<commit-sha1-prefix>
>>
>> which searches all repos hosted at git.haskell.org for the given sha1
>> prefix; there's also a convenient text-entry field at
>> http://git.haskell.org/ which allows you to copy'n'paste any commit-ids
>> you might come across in emails, irc logs, trac comments or even commit
>> messages...
>>
>> ...does this lookup-service alleviate your concerns?
>>
>
> Personally I think it's still much friction; another thing to remember. Is
> it really worth it for a couple of megs of bandwidth* and some disk space?
>
> If it really is I believe git has some facility for nuking the data of old
> commits. That facility exists for the case when someone committed something
> sensitive to the code base that should never have been there.
>
> * GitHub's bandwidth if you use that mirror.
>
> -- Johan
>
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