[Gnu-arch-users] Re: patch-log sizes

[Pau Aliagas]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Dustin Sallings wrote:

> 
> On Dec 16, 2003, at 14:51, Tom Lord wrote:
> 
> > The other is log pruning.  Do I understand that you've made a tree
> > that carries around several years worth of patch log history?  If that
> > development had been done natively in arch, odds are that are along
> > the way there would have been some discarding of old logs (perhaps
> > stashing a ChangeLog of what's being discarded, for human readers).
> > You might wnat your gateway program to emulate that.
> 
>       I assume this means by branching to a new archive, right?  Are there 
> any problems with ``retiring'' an old archive (i.e. making it 
> unavailable)?

Isn't all this soved by cacherev?

You have 1000 log entries in a project. You tag another branch and 
cacherev base-0. You don't need the old patches anymore. so you can 
"retire" the old archive.

Pau