Re: [boost] Losing history (Was: [git] Boost.Build location_

Subject: Re: [boost] Losing history (Was: [git] Boost.Build location_
From: Nathan Ridge (zeratul976_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-12-28 00:12:40

> On December 28, 2012 5:59:22 AM Ryo IGARASHI <rigarash_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Artyom Beilis <artyomtnk_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > >>make sense to reproduce that entire history in each modularized repo.
> > >>Therefore, when someone wants a continuous look at the past, they're
> > >>going to use the "git replace" command
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm sorry but projects way bigger and complext than boost handle
> > entire history
> > > and use full code (Linux... for example)
> > >
> > > Sorry I don't buy it.
> >
> > I don't, either. Please just 'git clone' pulls ENTIRE HISTORY.
> > Less than 100GB of storage is not so huge in (almost) 2013.
> > Even the low-end SSD can contain ~128GB.
> >
> > If the storage really matters, he can always use 'shallow repository',
> > using 'git clone --depth N'.
>
> As Dave mentioned, the entire history is ~233MiB. Multiply that by the
> number of libraries in Boost and you easily reach multi-GiB checkouts
> when using the monolithic Boost (as we all are supposed to be for the
> moment). I think this is unacceptable either, even though I'm not a
> maintainer. If the history is preserved, it should also be split
> between the library repositories.

Is there no way to have each library share the same copy of the 
monolithic history? Then the new monolithic repo should be about the
same size as the current one.

Regards,
Nate