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@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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