Re: [Gnu-arch-users] archive storage format comments on the size

[Miles Bader]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 02:15:50PM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
> Patch-logs do not have to retain every entry from all of the history
> of a tree.   They need only retain a subset for the "active region" of
> history.   (In those rare cases where you need to start merging from
> very old work, if your logs have been pruned since then, sync-tree is
> your friend.)

Anyone have guidelines on patch-log pruning, BTW?  Maybe `everything older
than a year and not in the current archive, but keep base-0 tag logs'?

-Miles
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