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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
Subject: Re: RFC: removal of digest files from the tree
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:11:19 -0800
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Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> Related to the top level of the tree, can we get a release of repoman
> that detects if a checkout is a subset only (eg no top level), for folk
> that have subtree checkouts only? (Probably look for skel.*/profile
> items two levels up).

I think we should do like Rémi suggested and make it unconditionally
behave as if the manifest1_obsolete file exists. Once we've dropped
the old digest files from the repo, the behavior doesn't need to be
conditional anymore.

> I vote for actively removing them. I can do big commits like that on the
> CVS server, and save the network turnaround time that would happen
> otherwise.
> 
>> If there are no objections then I don't so any reason not to go ahead and add
>> the manifest1_obsolete sometime in the near future. Thoughts?
> Let's do it. I look forward to a lot less inodes on my disks.

Let's schedule a date for it then and we can have a big announcement
to let everyone know.

Zac
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